2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Quairading · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Quairading
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Quairading than in 2011, with 32.3% of households now consisting of a single person. This shift has helped push the typical number of people per home down to 2.2, which is lower than most other areas. The community is now shaped by a high number of small households and couples without children.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Quairading — lower than 86% of areas.
| Quairading | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home in Quairading has 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because one-person households have risen to 32.3%, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
32.3% ▲ +12.9%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Quairading, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 4 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 44.9%, while couples with children follow closely at 42.3%. One-parent families account for 11.7% of the total, which is a little below the Australian average and has fallen since 2011.
11.7% ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Quairading splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Quairading [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57350/quairading/topic/family-households