2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Como · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Como
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of all homes in Como are occupied by people living alone. This makes it a place with much smaller households than most other areas, with the typical home holding just 2.1 people.
2.1
→ 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 Como — lower than 81% of areas.
| Como | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6152, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 36.6% of people here live by themselves, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. Because so many people live alone, the usual household size is a little below the state and national figure of 2.5 people.
36.6% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Como splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families at 48.9%, while couples without children account for 36.8%. One-parent families represent 10.8% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.8% ▼ -19.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Como, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without 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 Como [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50316/como/topic/family-households