2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Three Springs · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Three Springs
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Three Springs than in other parts of the state. While half of all families include children, the number of single-person households has grown since 2011. This shift has left the town with a smaller typical household size than the national figure.
2.3
→ 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 Three Springs — lower than 71% of areas.
| Three Springs | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35.6% of people live alone, which is far above the Western Australian and national figures. This trend has risen 5.1 points since 2011, leaving the typical home with 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure.
35.6% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Three Springs splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (33%), with 4 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 50.3% of families, while one-parent families account for 12.8%. This last figure is about the same as the state average, though it has risen slightly by 1.0 points since 2011.
12.8% ▲ +8.0%
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Three Springs, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Three Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58260/three-springs/topic/family-households