2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eagle Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eagle Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples without children make up 68.2% of families in Eagle Bay, making it an area dominated by partners living together. The community is small and residential, with a very low number of single-parent homes compared to the rest of the country.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Eagle Bay — lower than 81% of areas.
| Eagle Bay | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6281, WA | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with just 2.1 people per house compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the fact that 72.7% of households contain only two people, while only 15.2% of residents live alone—a rate far below the national average.
15.2% ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Eagle Bay, 2 people is the majority at 75%; 1 person is next at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is centered on couples, with 27.3% having children and 68.2% without. Notably, there are no one-parent families in the area, which is far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eagle Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 71%; Couples with children is next at 29%.
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 Eagle Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50447/eagle-bay/topic/family-households