1.8 —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Spencers Brook · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Spencers Brook
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home than most similar areas defines Spencers Brook, where 59.5% of households are just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home is much smaller than the state and national figures.
1.8
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- 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 Spencers Brook — lower than 91% of areas.
| Spencers Brook | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 6401, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 60% of people here live alone, a figure far above the 25% seen across Western Australia and Australia. Because of this, the typical home holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
59.5% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 59.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Spencers Brook, 1 person is the majority at 56%; 2 people is next at 38%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here. In contrast, one-parent families represent only 8.9% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% national average.
8.9% —
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Spencers Brook, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; 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 Spencers Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51398/spencers-brook/topic/family-households