2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Quairading · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Quairading
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become more common in Quairading, where nearly 40% of people now live alone. This trend contributes to a typical home size of just 2.0 people, which is well below the figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Quairading — lower than 86% of areas.
| Quairading | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6383, WA | 2.2 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the state or nation, with 39.5% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the typical home in Quairading holds only 2.0 people, a figure well below the national average of 2.5.
39.5% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 39.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Quairading, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (37%) and 4 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of all families in Quairading are couples without children. One-parent families make up 16.6% of the total, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Western Australian average of 13.5%.
16.6% ▼ -12.4%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Quairading, Couples without children is the majority at 50%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Quairading [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51268/quairading/topic/family-households