1.7 ▼ -26.1%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Molloy Island · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Molloy Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm on Molloy Island, where just 1.7 people live in the typical home. This is much lower than the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a place where single people and couples without children make up the vast majority of the population.
1.7
▼ -26.1%
- 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 Molloy Island — lower than 94% of areas.
| Molloy Island | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 6290, WA | 1.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 33.8% of households being single-person homes, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 25.4%. Most other homes house just two people, while very few contain three or more residents.
33.8% ▲ +33.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Molloy Island, 2 people is the majority at 60%; 1 person is next at 35%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children dominate the family landscape at 79%, meaning one-parent families are rare at just 3%. This is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
3.0% ▼ -73.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Molloy Island, Couples without children is the majority at 86%; Couples with children is next at 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 Molloy Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50978/molloy-island/topic/family-households