2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burswood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Burswood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of all homes in Burswood are occupied by people living alone. This makes the area much smaller in scale than most others, with a typical household of just two people. It is a place where small, single-person homes are far more common than the state average.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 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 Burswood — lower than 86% of areas.
| Burswood | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6100, WA | 2.1 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 35.3% of households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home here holds only 2.0 people, well below the Western Australian average of 2.5.
35.3% ▲ +4.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Burswood, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 49.2%. One-parent families make up 10.7% of the total, which is a little below the state average and well below the national figure.
10.7% ▲ +54.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Burswood, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (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 Burswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50226/burswood/topic/family-households