2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Deer Park · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Deer Park
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the largest family group in Deer Park, accounting for 60.5% of families. This is a place where homes are often crowded, with the typical household holding nearly three people. Fewer people live alone here compared to the state and national figures.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Deer Park — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Deer Park are larger than most, with an average of 2.9 people per household. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, and only 20.5% of people live alone, which is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
20.5% ▲ +9.5%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Deer Park, the largest group is 2 people at 28%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 18.4% of the local total, a figure that is well above the 14.1% national average and much higher than most similar areas.
18.4% ▼ -5.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Deer Park, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Deer Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20729/deer-park/topic/family-households