2.5 ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Meekatharra · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Meekatharra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more one-parent families live in Meekatharra than in other parts of Western Australia. This shift is part of a broader change in the town, where the number of single-parent homes has climbed significantly since 2011. While the typical home size matches national figures, the makeup of these households is quite unusual.
2.5
▲ +8.7%
- 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 Meekatharra — higher than 64% of areas.
| Meekatharra | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 6642, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Over a third of people here live alone, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen since 2011. Homes typically hold 2.5 people, which is about the same as across Australia.
34.1% ▲ +16.3%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Meekatharra, the largest group is 1 person at 35%, followed by 2 people (29%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 32.3% of the total, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 13.5%. This is a sharp increase from 2011, when only 16.8% of families fell into this category.
32.3% ▲ +92.3%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Meekatharra splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (33%), with Couples without children at 25%.
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 Meekatharra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521032/meekatharra/topic/family-households