2.0 ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yilgarn · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Yilgarn
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Yilgarn compared to the rest of the state. This trend has grown since 2011, meaning the typical home now holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -16.7%
- 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 Yilgarn — lower than 95% of areas.
| Yilgarn | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 42.2% of all homes. This is 17 percentage points higher than the national average and reflects a trend where people per home has dropped from 2.4 in 2011 to 2.0 today.
42.2% ▲ +39.4%
Higher than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Yilgarn splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (37%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 46.2%. Only 10.2% of families are headed by a single parent, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
10.2% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Yilgarn splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 Yilgarn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59360/yilgarn/topic/family-households