2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 86% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wheat Belt - North · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Wheat Belt - North
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Wheat Belt - North than in 2011, with 29.0% of households now consisting of one person. This trend has contributed to a decline in the typical number of people per home, which has edged down to 2.3.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Wheat Belt - North — lower than 86% of areas.
| Wheat Belt - North | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the Western Australian and national figures of 2.5. Single-person households are quite common here, making up 29.0% of all homes—a figure well above the national average.
29.0% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 68% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wheat Belt - North, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost half of all families are couples with children, while 36.9% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 12.6% of the total, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
12.6% ▲ +7.3%
Lower than 65% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wheat Belt - North, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Wheat Belt - North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50902/wheat-belt-north/topic/family-households