3.1 ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ambergate · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ambergate
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people per home are found in Ambergate than in most similar areas, with a typical household holding 3.1 people. This is a family-heavy community where very few people live on their own.
3.1
▼ -3.1%
- 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 Ambergate — higher than 88% of areas.
| Ambergate | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 6280, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is rare here, at just 11.4%, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home size is a little above the Western Australian average.
11.4% ▲ +35.3%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ambergate, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 64.7% of families in the area. One-parent families are much less common than in most areas, at only 5.1%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
5.1% ▲ +22.2%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ambergate, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Ambergate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50016/ambergate/topic/family-households