2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Denham · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Denham
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become the norm in Denham, where the typical home now holds only 2 people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5 and reflects a community where nearly half of all homes are occupied by just one or two people.
2.0
→ 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 Denham — lower than 86% of areas.
| Denham | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6537, WA | 2.1 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 40.3% of people in Denham live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. Because of this, the number of people per home is much lower than in most other areas.
40.3% ▲ +14.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Denham splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here. One-parent families are less common, at 8.4%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
8.4% ▼ -30.1%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Denham, the largest group is Couples without children at 50%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (8%).
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 Denham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50403/denham/topic/family-households