3.3 ▼ -15.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9
- 2016: 3.7
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greys Plain · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Greys Plain
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Greys Plain have children, making it an area where large households are common. With a typical home holding 3.3 people, this is well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.3
▼ -15.4%
- 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 Greys Plain — higher than 91% of areas.
| Greys Plain | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 6701, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than usual, with 18.2% of households containing six or more people. Only 22.7% of residents live alone, which is a little below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
22.7% ▲ +144.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Greys Plain splits fairly evenly between 1 person (24%) and 2 people (24%), with 3 people at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 41.2% of the local total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is a significant contrast to the 8.1% of families consisting of couples without children.
41.2% ▲ +9.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.6%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greys Plain, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by One-parent families (40%) and Couples without children (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 Greys Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50591/greys-plain/topic/family-households