2.3 ▼ -50.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lake Grace · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Lake Grace
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp shift in living patterns has seen Lake Grace (L) move from large households to many more people living alone. Since 2011, the number of people living by themselves has jumped 28 percentage points to 34.1%, while the typical number of people per home has fallen from 4.6 to 2.3.
2.3
▼ -50.0%
- 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 Lake Grace — lower than 57% of areas.
| Lake Grace | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 6353, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.1% of residents now live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This increase helps explain why the typical home here now holds 2.3 people, slightly fewer than the Western Australian average of 2.5.
34.1% ▲ +444.9%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lake Grace splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (33%), with 4 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 60.6% of families, while one-parent families account for only 8.7%. This proportion of single-parent homes is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.7% ▼ -74.2%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lake Grace, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Lake Grace [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522038/lake-grace/topic/family-households