2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Morgantown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Morgantown
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Morgantown are couples with children, making this the most common living arrangement. However, the area also has a very high number of people living alone, which helps explain why the typical home here holds fewer people than those in most other areas.
2.3
→ 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 Morgantown — lower than 71% of areas.
| Morgantown | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 6701, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.8% of residents live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home in Morgantown holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5.
34.8% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Morgantown splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.8% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is much higher than in most other similar areas.
19.8% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Morgantown, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Morgantown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50997/morgantown/topic/family-households