2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forest Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Forest Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become a defining feature of Forest Hill, where nearly 38% of people now live alone. This is far above the national figure, creating a local landscape where single-person homes are much more common than in most other parts of the country.
2.3
—
- 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 Forest Hill — lower than 71% of areas.
| Forest Hill | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 6324, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.3 people live in the typical home, which is a little below the Western Australian average of 2.5. This trend is driven by the fact that 37.9% of residents live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%.
37.9% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Forest Hill, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 4 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.7% of the local mix, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. About 45% of families are couples with children, while 43.3% are couples without children.
21.7% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Forest Hill splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 20%.
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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50513/forest-hill/topic/family-households