2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coorow · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Coorow
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Coorow than in most similar areas, with 32.3% of households consisting of just one person. This contributes to a typical home size of 2.1 people, which is lower than the national figure of 2.5.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Coorow — lower than 90% of areas.
| Coorow | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A little over a third of the population lives alone, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common at 45.7%, which helps explain why the number of people per home is much lower than in most other areas.
32.3% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coorow, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 4 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up only 7.4% of the total, which is well below both the state and national figures. Couples without children are the most common family type, accounting for 53.8% of all families.
7.4% ▼ -21.6%
Lower than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Coorow, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 38%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Coorow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA52030/coorow/topic/family-households