1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cockburn Central · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cockburn Central
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 45% of homes in Cockburn Central are occupied by just one person, creating a landscape dominated by small households. This makes the area much smaller in scale than the typical Australian home, with a high number of single-person dwellings across the suburb.
1.9
▼ -20.8%
- 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 Cockburn Central — lower than 89% of areas.
| Cockburn Central | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 6164, WA | 2.8 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.9 people live in the typical home here, which is well below the state and national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a very high rate of people living alone, at 44.2%, which is far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
44.2% ▲ +74.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cockburn Central, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (38%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 46.0%, followed by couples with children at 40.0%. One-parent families account for 11.6%, a figure that is a little below the national average of 14.1%.
11.6% ▼ -31.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cockburn Central, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Cockburn Central [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50304/cockburn-central/topic/family-households