2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wattleup · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wattleup
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Wattleup than in most similar areas, with 30.2% of households consisting of just one person. This is a high figure that stands well above both the Western Australian and national averages.
2.5
→ 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 Wattleup — higher than 50% of areas.
| Wattleup | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 6166, WA | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Wattleup houses 2.5 people, which is about the same as the state and national figures. Two-person households are the most common at 37%, followed by those living alone at 30.2%.
30.2% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wattleup, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 4 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families here are couples with children, making up 53.7% of the total. One-parent families account for 12.2%, a figure a little below the state and national averages.
12.2% ▲ +25.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wattleup, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Wattleup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51550/wattleup/topic/family-households