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.
Porongurup · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Porongurup
How families and households are made up across the area.
Only 6.6% of families in Porongurup are headed by a single parent, a figure well below the national average. This suggests a community where two-parent households are far more common than in most other Australian 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 Porongurup — lower than 71% of areas.
| Porongurup | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 6324, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with a typical 2.3 people per household. This is partly because 26.7% of people live alone, which is a little above the figure for Western Australia.
26.7% ▲ +20.5%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Porongurup, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (27%) and 4 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families, with 49% raising children and 45.2% without. The number of one-parent families is much lower than in most other areas across the country.
6.6% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Porongurup splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (49%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Porongurup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51256/porongurup/topic/family-households