1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rottnest Island · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rottnest Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live in each home on Rottnest Island than in most other areas. This is a sparsely populated place where smaller living arrangements are the norm, with nearly half of all households consisting of just one or two people.
1.9
→ 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 Rottnest Island — lower than 89% of areas.
| Rottnest Island | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 6161, WA | 1.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households make up 41% of the total, which is far above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home has only 1.9 people, well below the national average of 2.5.
41.0% ▼ -13.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.4%
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Rottnest Island splits fairly evenly between 1 person (44%) and 2 people (44%), with 4 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 59.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 5.1% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
5.1% ▼ -10.2%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rottnest Island, Couples without children is the majority at 60%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Rottnest Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51314/rottnest-island/topic/family-households