2.9 ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Riverton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Riverton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly three people live in the typical Riverton home, which is much higher than most areas. This suburb is shaped by large households, with very few people living alone compared to the rest of the state and country.
2.9
▲ +7.4%
- 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 Riverton — higher than 81% of areas.
| Riverton | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 6148, WA | 2.7 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 2.9 people live in each home, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Only 20% of people here live alone, a figure well below the Australian average of 25.6%.
20.0% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Riverton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 4 people (25%), with 1 person at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 71.1% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 10.5%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.5% ▼ -19.1%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Riverton, Couples with children is the majority at 71%; Couples without children is next at 18%.
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 Riverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51298/riverton/topic/family-households