2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Scarborough · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Scarborough
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Scarborough than in most similar areas, with 34.5% of households consisting of a single person. This helps explain why the typical home here has just 2.1 people, which is a little below the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Scarborough — lower than 89% of areas.
| Scarborough | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6019, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, sitting well above the state and national figures. This trend has remained steady since 2011, with two-person households also making up a large slice of the area at 36.9%.
34.5% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Scarborough splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of all families here are couples with children. One-parent families make up 13.2% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian and national averages.
13.2% ▲ +0.0%
Higher than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Scarborough, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Scarborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/505021092/scarborough/topic/family-households