2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wanneroo · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Wanneroo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Wanneroo, where an average of 2.8 people live in each home. This is a family-heavy region where single-person living is far less common than the state or national figures.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Wanneroo — higher than 87% of areas.
| Wanneroo | 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 compared to the Australian figure of 2.5. Only 19.1% of people live alone, which is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
19.1% ▲ +15.9%
Lower than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wanneroo, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 63.7% of the family mix. One-parent families represent 15.1% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas and up 1.8 percentage points since 2011.
15.1% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wanneroo, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Wanneroo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58760/wanneroo/topic/family-households