2.2 —
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balcatta (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Balcatta (North Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Balcatta are couples with children, making up 54.3% of the area. However, the suburb is also marked by a very high number of people living on their own, which keeps the typical household size smaller than the state average.
2.2
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- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Balcatta (North Metropolitan) — lower than 90% of areas.
| Balcatta (North Metropolitan) | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.5% of residents live alone, a figure well above the Western Australian average of 25.4%. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home in Balcatta has 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
34.5% —
Higher than 94% of state electorate areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Balcatta (North Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 13.3% of the total, which is about the same as the state and national figures. Other family types include couples without children, who account for 30.6% of the total.
13.3% —
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Balcatta (North Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Balcatta (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED50304/balcatta/topic/family-households