3.2 —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Scotts Brook · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Scotts Brook
How families and households are made up across the area.
An average of 3.2 people per home makes Scotts Brook a place with much larger households than most of the country. This trend is driven by a high proportion of families with children and very few people living by themselves.
3.2
—
- 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 Scotts Brook — higher than 89% of areas.
| Scotts Brook | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 6244, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes are well above the national figure of 2.5 people, with 25% of households containing five people. Only 16.7% of residents live alone, which is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
16.7% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Scotts Brook splits fairly evenly between 5 people (26%) and 3 people (22%), with 4 people at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 81.4% of local families. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for just 4.3%, a figure well below the 14.1% national average.
4.3% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Scotts Brook, Couples with children is the majority at 76%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Scotts Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51335/scotts-brook/topic/family-households