2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carapook · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Carapook
How families and households are made up across the area.
Zero one-parent families is a striking feature of Carapook, where the local social structure is heavily weighted toward traditional family units. Most residents live in larger groups, with 72.9% of families consisting of couples with children.
2.6
—
- 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 Carapook — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Very few people live by themselves here, with only 13% in single-person homes, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home holds 2.6 people, a figure slightly higher than the Australian average.
13.0% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Carapook, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 3 people (22%) and 5 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 72.9% raising children and another 25.4% without children. There are no one-parent families in the area, a result far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Carapook, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Carapook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20483/carapook/topic/family-households