2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Shark Bay · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Shark Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Shark Bay than in most other similar areas. This contributes to a typical home size of just 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure.
2.1
→ 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 Shark Bay — lower than 90% of areas.
| Shark Bay | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 38.1% of residents live by themselves, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen since 2011. Two-person households are the most common at 40.3%.
38.1% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Shark Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 4 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 6.7% of the total, which is well below the figures for both Western Australia and the wider country.
6.7% ▼ -30.6%
Lower than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Shark Bay, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (43%) and One-parent families (7%).
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 Shark Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57770/shark-bay/topic/family-households