2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mandurah · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Mandurah
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Mandurah than in 2011, a trend that sees 27.5% of households now consisting of just one person. This shift occurs while the typical home size has remained steady at 2.4 people, roughly the same as the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 1 area
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 4 areas
- 2.0: 3 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 17 areas
- 2.3: 60 areas
- 2.4: 55 areas
- 2.5: 57 areas
- 2.6: 43 areas
- 2.7: 19 areas
- 2.8: 27 areas
- 2.9: 16 areas
- 3.0: 13 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 1 area
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
All sub-region (sa3) areas, 2021. The marker is Mandurah — lower than 71% of areas.
| Mandurah | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 38.6% of homes have two people, making it the most common household size. The number of people living alone has risen by 2.9 percentage points since 2011, leaving it a little above the national figure of 25.6%.
27.5% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mandurah, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (27%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.5% of the local mix, which is much higher than most similar areas and rose 1.2 percentage points since 2011. Nearly half of all families here are couples with children, while 33.5% are couples without children.
16.5% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 77% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mandurah, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Mandurah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50201/mandurah/topic/family-households