2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Safety Bay - Shoalwater · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Safety Bay - Shoalwater
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Safety Bay - Shoalwater are couples with children. This is a place where many people live alone, with 31.5% of households consisting of a single person, a figure well above the national average.
2.3
→ 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 Safety Bay - Shoalwater — lower than 71% of areas.
| Safety Bay - Shoalwater | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 6169, WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than those in most other areas, with a typical size of 2.3 people. This reflects the high number of single-person households, which rose to 31.5% in 2021 and is well above the Western Australian figure of 25.4%.
31.5% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Safety Bay - Shoalwater splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 14.7% of the community, which is a little above the state average. This figure has remained steady since 2011, while couples without children make up a further 32.7% of families.
14.7% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 63% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Safety Bay - Shoalwater, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Safety Bay - Shoalwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/507051190/safety-bay-shoalwater/topic/family-households