2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Middleton Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Middleton Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples without children make up the largest group in Middleton Beach, where 45.5% of families fit this description. This creates a community of smaller households, with far more people living alone than in the typical Australian suburb.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Middleton Beach — lower than 86% of areas.
| Middleton Beach | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6330, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much smaller than usual, with only 2.0 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 37.3% of people live alone, which is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
37.3% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Middleton Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 40.3% of families, while one-parent families account for 13.2%. This last figure is higher than most similar areas, though it is about the same as the Western Australian average.
13.2% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Middleton Beach, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Middleton Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50946/middleton-beach/topic/family-households