2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bridgetown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bridgetown
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Bridgetown than in most similar areas. While nearly half of all families have children, the typical home here is smaller than the national figure, with just 2.2 people per household.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Bridgetown — lower than 76% of areas.
| Bridgetown | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 6255, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.4% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller than most areas, with 42.8% of households containing just two people.
30.4% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Bridgetown, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46% of families, while couples without children account for 42.4%. One-parent families make up 10.8% of the total, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.8% ▼ -20.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Bridgetown splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 11%.
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 Bridgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50180/bridgetown/topic/family-households