2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swan · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Swan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Swan, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is higher than both the state and national figures of 2.5. The area is characterised by a strong presence of families, with few residents living on their own.
2.8
→ 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 Swan — higher than 87% of areas.
| Swan | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 2.8 people per household. This helps explain why only 21.2% of people live alone, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%.
21.2% ▲ +10.3%
Lower than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Swan, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 62.2%. One-parent families are also more common here than in most areas, accounting for 15.4% of the total.
15.4% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swan, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Swan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58050/swan/topic/family-households