2.9 ▲ +20.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Shackleton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Shackleton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family sizes in Shackleton have remained consistently larger than the national average over the last decade. The area is dominated by couples with children, which helps explain why it has far fewer people living alone than most other regions.
2.9
▲ +20.8%
- 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 Shackleton — higher than 81% of areas.
| Shackleton | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 6386, WA | 2.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Shackleton are larger than usual, with 2.9 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the low number of single-person households, which at 12% is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
12.0% ▼ -60.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 41.7%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Shackleton, 2 people is the majority at 55%; 1 person is next at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 60% of families here. Consequently, one-parent families are rare at just 6%, a figure that is well below both the Western Australian and national averages.
6.0% ▲ +204.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Shackleton, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Shackleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51341/shackleton/topic/family-households