3.0 ▼ -23.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dampier Peninsula · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dampier Peninsula
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger living arrangements have become more common in the Dampier Peninsula since 2011. With 3.0 people in the typical home, the area has much larger households than most similar places. This trend is reflected in a high number of one-parent families, which are far more common here than in the rest of the state.
3.0
▼ -23.1%
- 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 Dampier Peninsula — higher than 86% of areas.
| Dampier Peninsula | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 6725, WA | 2.7 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than the national figure, with 3.0 people per household. While 25.8% of people live alone—which is about the same as the Western Australian average—nearly 12% of households contain five or more people.
25.8% ▲ +76.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dampier Peninsula splits fairly evenly between 1 person (26%) and 2 people (21%), with 4 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 34.2% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% national average. Couples with children are the most common family type at 53.4%, while couples without children make up only 10.6%.
34.2% ▲ +23.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dampier Peninsula, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; One-parent families is next at 34%.
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 Dampier Peninsula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50380/dampier-peninsula/topic/family-households