3.2 ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lower Chittering · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lower Chittering
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 67.2% of all families in Lower Chittering, forming the most common household type. This is a place of large households and few people living alone, with the typical home holding far more people than the national figure.
3.2
▲ +6.7%
- 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 Lower Chittering — higher than 89% of areas.
| Lower Chittering | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 6084, WA | 2.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than usual, with 3.2 people per house compared to 2.5 across Australia. This is reflected in the fact that only 10.7% of people live alone, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 25.4%.
10.7% ▲ +37.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lower Chittering, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 7.6% of the total, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. Most families are couples, with 67.2% having children and 25% without.
7.6% ▲ +30.5%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lower Chittering, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Lower Chittering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50863/lower-chittering/topic/family-households