2.3 —
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller households are the norm in Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural), where nearly one in three people live by themselves. This trend is much stronger here than in most other similar areas. While half of the families have children, the overall number of people living in each home is lower than the national figure.
2.3
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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 Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural) — lower than 86% of areas.
| Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural) | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high proportion of residents live alone, at 31%, which is well above both the state and national figures. This helps explain why the typical home here has only 2.3 people, a figure that is much lower than in most similar areas.
31.0% —
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural), the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 49.3% of families, while 36.2% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 13.6%, which is about the same as the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
13.6% —
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural), the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51401/central-wheatbelt/topic/family-households