2.9 ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tom Price · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Tom Price
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Tom Price, where 2.9 people live in the typical home. This is much higher than most similar areas, reflecting a community dominated by couples with children.
2.9
▲ +11.5%
- 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 Tom Price — higher than 86% of areas.
| Tom Price | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 6751, WA | 2.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far less common here, with only 20.3% of people in single-person homes, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. The typical household size has also moved up since 2011.
20.3% ▲ +3.9%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tom Price splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 4 people (22%), with 1 person at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 76.9%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for just 5.1%, a figure that is well below the Australian average and has fallen since 2011.
5.1% ▼ -63.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tom Price, Couples with children is the majority at 77%; Couples without children is next at 18%.
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 Tom Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515033/tom-price/topic/family-households