2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Plantagenet · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Plantagenet
How families and households are made up across the area.
A little fewer than 2.3 people live in the typical home in Plantagenet, which is slightly below the Western Australian and national figures. The area is mostly made up of two-person households and couples with children, though the number of people living alone has grown over the last decade.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Plantagenet — lower than 71% of areas.
| Plantagenet | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone now make up 27.5% of households, a figure that has risen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common, accounting for 41.5% of all dwellings.
27.5% ▲ +14.8%
Lower than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Plantagenet, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families at 49.1%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.9%, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011.
11.9% ▼ -12.2%
Lower than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Plantagenet, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (12%).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Plantagenet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57210/plantagenet/topic/family-households