2.0 ▼ -57.4%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Guilderton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Guilderton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Guilderton (L), where only 2.0 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a local trend toward smaller living arrangements and a high number of people living on their own.
2.0
▼ -57.4%
- 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 Guilderton — lower than 86% of areas.
| Guilderton | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6041, WA | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 40.3% of people here live alone, which is far above the 25.6% national average. This figure has risen sharply since 2011, while the typical number of people per home has dropped from 4.7 to 2.0.
40.3% ▲ +119.9%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Guilderton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (45%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.3% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. These families represent a growing part of the area, rising by 6 percentage points since 2011.
25.3% ▲ +31.1%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Guilderton, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; One-parent families is next at 23%.
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 Guilderton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522028/guilderton/topic/family-households