2.2 —
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rockingham (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Rockingham (South Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Rockingham (South Metropolitan) than in most similar areas. This trend is starkly visible in the 33.8% of households made up of single residents, a figure that has climbed steeply since 2016. The area is also seeing a much higher proportion of one-parent families compared to the rest of the state and nation.
2.2
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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 Rockingham (South Metropolitan) — lower than 90% of areas.
| Rockingham (South Metropolitan) | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home now holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5 and represents a drop from 2.9 in 2016. This shift is driven by a surge in single-person households, which now account for 33.8% of all homes.
33.8% —
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Rockingham (South Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.4% of the local total, which is well above the Western Australian average of 13.5%. This proportion has risen by 6.7 percentage points since 2016, while couples with children remain the most common family type at 48.1%.
17.4% —
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rockingham (South Metropolitan), the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Rockingham (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED54605/rockingham/topic/family-households