2.0 —
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Perth (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Perth (North Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few areas have as many small households as Perth (North Metropolitan), where the typical home now holds only two people. This shift is driven by a huge jump in people living alone, who now make up 37.6% of all households.
2.0
—
- 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 Perth (North Metropolitan) — lower than 99% of areas.
| Perth (North Metropolitan) | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Western Australia or the nation, rising by 26 points since 2016. This helps explain why the number of people per home is well below the national figure of 2.5.
37.6% —
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Perth (North Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46.7% of families, while couples without children account for 42.1%. The share of one-parent families is 9.3%, which is well below both the state and national figures.
9.3% —
Lower than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Perth (North Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Perth (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED54304/perth/topic/family-households