2.9 —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wickham · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Wickham
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Wickham, where 2.9 people live in the typical home. This is a little above the national figure and reflects a community where few people live by themselves.
2.9
—
- 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 Wickham — higher than 86% of areas.
| Wickham | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 6720, WA | 2.8 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 21.8% of people live alone, which is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia. This contributes to a typical household size that is much higher than most areas.
21.8% —
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wickham splits fairly evenly between 2 people (23%) and 1 person (22%), with 4 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 78% of families here. One-parent families account for only 6.8%, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1% and among the lowest at this level.
6.8% —
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wickham, Couples with children is the majority at 78%; Couples without children is next at 15%.
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 Wickham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515037/wickham/topic/family-households