2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bunbury · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bunbury
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Bunbury than in most similar areas, with 39.1% of households consisting of just one person. This creates a distinct housing pattern where the typical home is much smaller than the state or national average. Most households here contain only one or two people.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Bunbury — lower than 86% of areas.
| Bunbury | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6230, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Just 2.0 people live in the typical Bunbury home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which are far more common here than across Western Australia.
39.1% ▲ +8.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bunbury splits fairly evenly between 2 people (39%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 43.5% of families, while couples without children account for 42.8%. One-parent families represent 12.6% of the total, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas.
12.6% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Bunbury splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Bunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50210/bunbury/topic/family-households