2.0 ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greenbushes · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Greenbushes
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-one per cent of people in Greenbushes live alone, making it a place where single-person households are very common. This is far more frequent than across the rest of the state and the nation. The typical home here is smaller than usual, with just two people per dwelling.
2.0
▼ -20.0%
- 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 Greenbushes — lower than 86% of areas.
| Greenbushes | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6254, WA | 2.1 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with the figure rising 16 points since 2011 to 41.1%. Consequently, the typical home holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
41.1% ▲ +61.4%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Greenbushes splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (37%), with 4 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 47.9%, followed by couples without children at 39.9%. One-parent families account for 10.9% of the total, a figure that is well below the Australian average and has fallen since 2011.
10.9% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greenbushes, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (40%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Greenbushes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522027/greenbushes/topic/family-households