2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 86% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
6081, WA · Postcode
Family & Households in 6081, WA
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in postcode 6081 than in the rest of the country, with only 14.9% of households being single-person homes. This gap helps explain why the area has much larger households than most, with a typical home holding 2.8 people.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 1.0: 3 areas
- 1.1: 1 area
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 1 area
- 1.4: 1 area
- 1.5: 4 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 16 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 61 areas
- 2.0: 101 areas
- 2.1: 182 areas
- 2.2: 257 areas
- 2.3: 365 areas
- 2.4: 338 areas
- 2.5: 338 areas
- 2.6: 233 areas
- 2.7: 223 areas
- 2.8: 157 areas
- 2.9: 127 areas
- 3.0: 75 areas
- 3.1: 49 areas
- 3.2: 40 areas
- 3.3: 13 areas
- 3.4: 10 areas
- 3.5: 6 areas
- 3.6: 3 areas
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 0 areas
- 4.2: 1 area
All postcode areas, 2021. The marker is 6081, WA — higher than 86% of areas.
| 6081, WA | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Mundaring | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than the national figure of 2.5 people, though this has edged down since 2011. Two-person households are the most common at 35.8%, while only 14.9% of people live alone, a figure far below the Western Australian average of 25.4%.
14.9% ▲ +15.9%
Lower than 92% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 6081, WA, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 64.5%. One-parent families account for 9.0% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia and has barely changed since 2011.
9.0% ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 78% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 6081, WA, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 6081, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6081/6081-wa/topic/family-households