2.1 ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Magnet · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Mount Magnet
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Mount Magnet than in most other similar areas, with 38.3% of households consisting of just one person. This shift toward smaller living arrangements has seen the typical home size drop to 2.1 people, which is lower than the national figure.
2.1
▼ -16.0%
- 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 Mount Magnet — lower than 90% of areas.
| Mount Magnet | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high proportion of residents live by themselves, a figure that has risen by 4.3 percentage points since 2011. This trend helps explain why homes here are smaller than typical Western Australian households.
38.3% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mount Magnet splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (40%), with 4 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.4% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This group has grown since 2011, while couples without children are now the most common family type at 37.2%.
23.4% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mount Magnet splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (38%) and Couples with children (37%), with One-parent families at 24%.
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 Mount Magnet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA55810/mount-magnet/topic/family-households