3.0 ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Caversham · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Caversham
How families and households are made up across the area.
Three people per home is the typical household size in Caversham, which is much higher than most other areas. This makes it a place where large households are common and very few people live on their own.
3.0
▲ +7.1%
- 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 Caversham — higher than 86% of areas.
| Caversham | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 6055, WA | 2.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 16% of people live alone here, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%. Most homes are larger than usual, with 21.5% of households containing four people and 8.4% holding five.
16.0% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Caversham, the largest group is 2 people at 29%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 69.9%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.8%, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 13.5%.
9.8% ▼ -36.2%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Caversham, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Caversham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50277/caversham/topic/family-households