2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fitzroy Crossing · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Fitzroy Crossing
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Fitzroy Crossing are couples with children. This makes for a distinctive mix of home lives, where high numbers of single-parent families exist alongside a growing number of people living alone.
2.6
▲ +8.3%
- 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 Fitzroy Crossing — higher than 71% of areas.
| Fitzroy Crossing | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 6765, WA | 3.0 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33.7% of people live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. While the typical home holds 2.6 people, this number has moved up slightly since 2011.
33.7% ▲ +21.1%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 33.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fitzroy Crossing splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (29%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.7% of the total, a figure that is far above the Western Australian average of 13.5%. This proportion has risen by 12 percentage points since 2011.
26.7% ▲ +83.1%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fitzroy Crossing, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by One-parent families (27%) and Couples without children (19%).
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 Fitzroy Crossing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515014/fitzroy-crossing/topic/family-households