2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Magnet · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mount Magnet
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people have lived alone or in single-parent families in Mount Magnet since 2011. The town is now marked by smaller living arrangements, with the typical home holding just two people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5 people per household.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Mount Magnet — lower than 86% of areas.
| Mount Magnet | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6638, WA | 2.1 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in most areas, with 39% of households being single-person homes. This has risen since 2011 and helps explain why the typical home size is much lower than across Western Australia.
39.0% ▲ +19.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 41.7%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mount Magnet splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (39%), with 4 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.7% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen by 12 points since 2011. Couples without children are the most common family type at 38.2%.
24.7% ▲ +102.1%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mount Magnet splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (39%) and Couples with children (36%), with One-parent families 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 Mount Magnet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521033/mount-magnet/topic/family-households