3.1 → 0.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tapping · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tapping
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger than most similar areas, households in Tapping typically hold more people. This is a family-focused place where 3.1 people live in the usual home, which is a little above the state and national figures of 2.5.
3.1
→ 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 Tapping — higher than 88% of areas.
| Tapping | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 6065, WA | 2.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 13% of people live alone here, a figure far below the 25.6% national average. This trend is reflected in the home sizes, with 27.4% of households having two people and 24.7% having four.
13.0% ▲ +21.8%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tapping splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 4 people (25%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 71.7%. One-parent families account for 10.8%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.8% ▲ +33.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tapping, Couples with children is the majority at 72%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Tapping [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51435/tapping/topic/family-households