2.1 ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 4.5
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Peak Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Peak Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-one percent of people live alone in Peak Hill, which is one of the highest rates for any similar area. This high number of single-person homes means the community has a much smaller typical household size than most of the country.
2.1
▼ -27.6%
- 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 Peak Hill — lower than 81% of areas.
| Peak Hill | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6642, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 41.4% of people living alone, the typical home in Peak Hill holds just 2.1 people. This is a little below the Western Australian and national figures of 2.5.
41.4% ▲ +169.0%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Peak Hill, 1 person is the majority at 67%; 2 people is next at 33%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 0.0% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%. Couples with and without children both account for 39.4% of family groups here.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Peak Hill splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (45%), with Other families at 10%.
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 Peak Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51218/peak-hill/topic/family-households