2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hopetoun · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hopetoun
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift towards smaller living arrangements has seen Hopetoun become an area where more people live alone than in most similar places. This is a quiet residential hub where nearly 37% of households are single-person homes. These trends mean the typical home is smaller than the state average, with only 2.1 people per dwelling.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Hopetoun — lower than 81% of areas.
| Hopetoun | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6348, WA | 2.1 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are far more common here than in the rest of Australia, making up 36.9% of all households. This high number of people living alone helps explain why the typical home size of 2.1 people is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
36.9% ▲ +36.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hopetoun splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 48.2%, while couples without children account for 41.4%. One-parent families represent 11% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
11.0% ▲ +96.1%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hopetoun, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50654/hopetoun/topic/family-households