2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Armadale · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Armadale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of homes in Armadale are occupied by just one person, making it an area of very small households. This high number of single-person homes means Armadale has far fewer people per home than the state or national figures.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Armadale — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 39.7% of residents live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Consequently, the typical home here has only 2.0 people, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 2.5.
39.7% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Armadale splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.3% of families, while couples without children account for 38.7%. One-parent families represent 11.4% of the total, which is a little below the national figure.
11.4% ▲ +18.3%
Lower than 67% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Armadale, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (39%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Armadale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206061135/armadale/topic/family-households