3.7 ▲ +60.9%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 3.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Looma · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Looma
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households are common in Looma compared to most similar areas. With a typical home holding 3.7 people, the community sees far more crowded living arrangements than the national figure. This reflects a shift since 2011, as the number of people sharing a home has grown significantly.
3.7
▲ +60.9%
- 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 Looma — higher than 94% of areas.
| Looma | 3.7 |
|---|---|
| 6728, WA | 2.8 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is rare here, with only 15.8% of households being single-person, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. Large homes are frequent, as 22.8% of households contain six or more people.
15.8% ▼ -55.1%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Looma splits fairly evenly between 6 or more (22%) and 2 people (20%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 35.4% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011, while couples with children remain the most common group at 47%.
35.4% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Looma, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (36%) and Couples without children (13%).
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 Looma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522043/looma/topic/family-households