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.
Leeman · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Leeman
How families and households are made up across the area.
Roughly 46% of families in Leeman are couples with children, the largest family group in the area. This is a sparsely populated place where many people live alone, and homes generally hold fewer people than the national figure.
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 Leeman — lower than 81% of areas.
| Leeman | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6514, WA | 2.0 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Leeman holds 2.1 people, which is much lower than most areas. This is consistent with a high number of people living alone, at 34.1%, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
34.1% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Leeman, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 4 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 3.4% of the total, which is far below the Australian figure of 14.1%. Most families here are couples, with 46.3% having children and 45.8% without.
3.4% ▼ -80.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Leeman splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (48%), with One-parent families at 4%.
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 Leeman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50841/leeman/topic/family-households