1.5 ▼ -25.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sandstone · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Sandstone
How families and households are made up across the area.
Living alone is the norm for over half the residents in Sandstone, making it a very solitary place to live. This shift has grown since 2011, creating a landscape where small, single-person households are far more common than in the rest of the state.
1.5
▼ -25.0%
- 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 Sandstone — lower than 99% of areas.
| Sandstone | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Sandstone holds just 1.5 people, which is far below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the 51.2% of people living alone, a figure that has risen 17 points since 2011 and is far above the Australian average.
51.2% ▲ +50.1%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 51.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sandstone, 1 person is the majority at 59%; 2 people is next at 41%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families in Sandstone consist entirely of couples without children. This means there are no one-parent families, a figure that is far below the state and national rates and has fallen to 0.0% since 2011.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sandstone, Couples without children is the majority at 100%.
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 Sandstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57630/sandstone/topic/family-households