2.1 ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carapooee · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Carapooee
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all households in Carapooee are headed by someone living alone, creating a very different living pattern to most of the state. This sparsely populated area sees far more single-person homes and one-parent families than the national average.
2.1
▼ -16.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Carapooee — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 46.7% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Because so many residents live solo, the typical home holds only 2.1 people, which is much lower than most other areas.
46.7% ▲ +139.6%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Carapooee splits fairly evenly between 1 person (45%) and 2 people (45%), with 4 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 31% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is one of the highest proportions of single-parent homes for an area of this size.
31.0% ▲ +203.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Carapooee, the largest group is Couples without children at 39%, followed by Couples with children (33%) and One-parent families (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 Carapooee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20481/carapooee/topic/family-households