2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Corrigin · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Corrigin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much fewer people live in each home in Corrigin than in most similar areas. This is a place where one-person households are very common, with 40.1% of homes housing just one person. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical home is much smaller than the state and national figures.
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 Corrigin — lower than 86% of areas.
| Corrigin | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6375, WA | 2.2 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 40.1% of people here live alone, which is far above the Western Australian and national figures of around 25%. Because of this, the typical home has only 2.0 people, well below the state and national average of 2.5.
40.1% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Corrigin splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 46.0%, while one-parent families are only 6.9%. This last figure is well below both the state and national figures, which sit around 14%.
6.9% ▼ -48.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Corrigin splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Corrigin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50340/corrigin/topic/family-households