2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Belmont (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Belmont (East Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Belmont are couples with children, making them the most common household type. However, the area is marked by a high number of people living on their own. This contributes to a smaller typical household size than in most other parts of the country.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Belmont (East Metropolitan) — lower than 86% of areas.
| Belmont (East Metropolitan) | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with 31.9% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the typical home in Belmont has only 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
31.9% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Belmont (East Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.9% of families, while 30.3% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 14.4%, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
14.4% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Belmont (East Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Belmont (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED50702/belmont/topic/family-households