2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bruce Rock · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Bruce Rock
How families and households are made up across the area.
A striking 38.5% of households in Bruce Rock are people living alone, which is far above the national figure. This high number of single-person homes means the town has a smaller typical household size than most other areas. These trends have remained steady over the last decade.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Bruce Rock — lower than 64% of areas.
| Bruce Rock | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 6418, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Western Australian and national figures of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 38.5% of residents live alone, a figure that is much higher than in most areas.
38.5% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.0%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bruce Rock splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (36%), with 4 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families are couples with children, while 34.7% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 14.7% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure and down 3.3 points since 2011.
14.7% ▼ -18.4%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bruce Rock, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (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 Bruce Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521009/bruce-rock/topic/family-households