2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Busselton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Busselton
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people have lived alone in Busselton since 2011, with this group now making up 27.2% of all households. This shift comes while the typical home size remains around 2.4 people, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Busselton — higher than 57% of areas.
| Busselton | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 6280, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 38.5% of homes contain two people, while 27.2% are single-person households. This last group is a little above the national figure and has grown by 2.7 percentage points over the last decade.
27.2% ▲ +11.1%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Busselton, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (27%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of the local families at 51.2%. One-parent families account for 14.4% of the total, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and is about the same as across Australia.
14.4% ▲ +0.5%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Busselton, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Busselton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL512002/busselton/topic/family-households