2.8 —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Walsall · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Walsall
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger-than-average households define daily life in Walsall, where 2.8 people live in the typical home. This is a little above the state and national figures of 2.5, reflecting a community where few people live by themselves.
2.8
—
- 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 Walsall — higher than 76% of areas.
| Walsall | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 6280, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 15% of people here live alone, which is far below the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why homes are more crowded than most areas, with 55% of households containing two people and another 25% holding three.
15.0% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Walsall, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 3 people (20%) and 1 person (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most homes are family-based, with 63.3% being couples with children. One-parent families make up 12.2% of the total, which is a little below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
12.2% —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Walsall, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Walsall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51511/walsall/topic/family-households