2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Orange Grove · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Orange Grove
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Orange Grove than in most similar areas, with 43.2% of households consisting of just one person. This creates a distinct community profile where single-person homes are far more common than the national figure. Overall, households here are smaller and less likely to be headed by a single parent.
2.2
→ 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 Orange Grove — lower than 76% of areas.
| Orange Grove | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 6109, WA | 2.7 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home in Orange Grove holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high proportion of single-person households, which account for 43.2% of all homes.
43.2% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Orange Grove, the largest group is 1 person at 43%, followed by 2 people (30%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.9% of families, while one-parent families are rare at 7.8%. This last figure is well below both the state and national averages.
7.8% ▲ +36.4%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Orange Grove, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Orange Grove
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Orange Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51185/orange-grove/topic/family-households