Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate

Family & Households in Cottesloe (North Metropolitan)

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.

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📍 Cottesloe (North Metropolitan), State Electorate

Where Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) sits — Average household size

2.4
  • 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 Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) — lower than 71% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Cottesloe (North Metropolitan)2.4
Greater Perth 2.6
Western Australia 2.5
Australia 2.5

Households

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.

Household size

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Cottesloe (North Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (29%), with 4 people at 16%.

Families

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.

Family composition

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In Cottesloe (North Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 28%.

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 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