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.
Stirling · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Stirling
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Stirling than in most similar areas, with 30.2% of households consisting of a single person. While this is a standout figure, the typical home still holds about 2.4 people, which is around the middle for its level.
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 Stirling — lower than 71% of areas.
| Stirling | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.2% of people here live alone, which is well above the 25.6% national figure. The most common home sizes are two people (33%) and one person (30.2%), and this layout has barely changed since 2011.
30.2% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 78% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Stirling splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 57.9%, while couples without children account for 27.6%. One-parent families make up 13.1% of the total, which is about the same as the Western Australian average.
13.1% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 58% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Stirling, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Stirling [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50502/stirling/topic/family-households