1.8 → 0.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Perth · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Perth
How families and households are made up across the area.
Living arrangements in Perth have remained remarkably stable since 2011, with a lasting trend of small households. The city is now defined by a very high number of single-person homes, with 43% of residents living alone.
1.8
→ 0.0%
- 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 Perth — lower than 99% of areas.
| Perth | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 43% of people living alone, Perth has a much higher rate than the national figure of 25.6%. This explains why the typical home holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the Australian average of 2.5.
43.0% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 42.4%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 43.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Perth splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 55.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families represent 8.7% of the total, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1%.
8.7% ▲ +39.6%
Lower than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Perth, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57080/perth/topic/family-households