1.9 —
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Perth (North) - Highgate · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Perth (North) - Highgate
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far greater number of people now live alone in Highgate than in previous censuses. This shift has left the area with a very small typical household size of 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.9
—
- 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 Perth (North) - Highgate — lower than 96% of areas.
| Perth (North) - Highgate | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 6000, WA | 1.8 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 41.9% of residents live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This explains why Highgate has among the lowest numbers of people per home in the region.
41.9% —
Higher than 98% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Perth (North) - Highgate splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here at 51.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families represent only 10.1%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.1% —
Lower than 79% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Perth (North) - Highgate, Couples without children is the majority at 51%; Couples with children is next at 37%.
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 Perth (North) - Highgate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/503021296/perth-highgate/topic/family-households