2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cervantes · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Cervantes
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Cervantes than in 2011, leading to a typical home size of just 2.0 people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, making it one of the areas with the smallest households in the region.
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 Cervantes — lower than 86% of areas.
| Cervantes | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6511, WA | 2.0 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households now make up 36.9% of the area, a figure that rose 8.3 points since 2011 and is far above the Australian average. Two-person homes are the most common at 39.5%.
36.9% ▲ +28.9%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cervantes splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 8.6% of the community, which is well below the state and national figures. This proportion has fallen 2.5 points since 2011, while couples without children are the most common family type at 45.7%.
8.6% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Cervantes splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Cervantes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522012/cervantes/topic/family-households