2.3 ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Esperance · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Esperance
How families and households are made up across the area.
Well over 31% of people in Esperance live alone, a figure that is well above the state and national averages. This shift toward smaller living arrangements has seen the typical number of people per home drop to 2.3 since 2011. Most residents live in small households of one or two people.
2.3
▼ -14.8%
- 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 Esperance — lower than 57% of areas.
| Esperance | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 6450, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households have risen by 8.3 percentage points over the last decade to reach 31.6%. Consequently, Esperance has a slightly lower number of people per home than the Western Australian and Australian figures of 2.5.
31.6% ▲ +35.6%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Esperance splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of families here are couples with children, while 31.3% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 15.7% of the total, which is a little above the national figure and a decrease from 2011.
15.7% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Esperance, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL513002/esperance/topic/family-households