2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coral Bay · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Coral Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Half of all homes in Coral Bay are occupied by people living alone, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area's households much smaller than typical Australian homes, with the usual number of people per home falling to 2.0 since 2011.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Coral Bay — lower than 86% of areas.
| Coral Bay | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6701, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One person lives alone in 50% of homes, which is among the highest levels for similar areas. This high proportion of single-person households helps explain why home sizes are well below the state and national figure of 2.5 people.
50.0% ▲ +60.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coral Bay, 1 person is the majority at 59%; 2 people is next at 33%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.6% of families, while those without children account for 45.8%. One-parent families are among the lowest at this level at 6.9%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
6.9% ▼ -72.4%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Coral Bay splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Coral Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522015/coral-bay/topic/family-households