2.8 ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yanchep · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yanchep
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes and bigger families shape daily life in Yanchep, where the typical household is larger than most. This is a family-focused area where nearly 60% of homes are couples with children.
2.8
▲ +7.7%
- 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 Yanchep — higher than 76% of areas.
| Yanchep | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 6035, WA | 2.8 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Yanchep are more crowded than usual, with 2.8 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with only 19.8% of people living alone, which is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
19.8% ▲ +1.2%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yanchep, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.3% of the area, a figure well above the 14.1% national average. Most families here are couples with children, accounting for 60.1% of the total.
17.3% ▲ +26.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yanchep, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Yanchep [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51667/yanchep/topic/family-households