2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Meckering · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Meckering
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of people live alone in Meckering, which is well above the national figure. This high number of single-person homes shapes the local housing landscape, though the typical household size remains about the same as the rest of Australia.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Meckering — lower than 57% of areas.
| Meckering | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 6405, WA | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Around 35% of people here live alone, a figure much higher than most similar areas and well above the Western Australian average of 25.4%. Despite this, the usual home holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
35.0% ▲ +52.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Meckering splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (31%), with 4 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 58.5% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 10.1%, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.1% ▲ +14.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Meckering, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Meckering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50923/meckering/topic/family-households