2.4 —
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 61.5% of families in Cottesloe, making them the most common household type. The area has a high proportion of people living alone and far fewer one-parent families than the state and national figures.
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) — lower than 71% of areas.
| Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Almost 29% of people here live alone, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 25.4%. This helps explain why the typical home in Cottesloe has 2.4 people, slightly lower than the national average of 2.5.
2.4 —
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
28.7% —
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (29%), with 4 people at 16%.
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 9.6% of the total, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1% and among the lowest for similar areas.
9.6% —
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Cottesloe (North Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51804/cottesloe/topic/family-households