1.6 ▼ -36.0%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Picton East · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Picton East
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Picton East are occupied by people living alone. This makes it a very small-household area, with the typical home holding only 1.6 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.6
▼ -36.0%
- 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 Picton East — lower than 97% of areas.
| Picton East | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| 6229, WA | 1.7 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 57.7% of households consisting of one person. This is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia, and helps explain why typical home sizes are among the lowest for similar areas.
57.7% ▲ +91.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 44.2%
- 2021: 57.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Picton East, 1 person is the majority at 55%; 2 people is next at 35%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families are couples without children, making up 65.2% of the group. In contrast, there are no one-parent families in the area, a figure far below the 14.1% national average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Picton East, Couples without children is the majority at 66%; Couples with 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 Picton East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51239/picton-east/topic/family-households