1.8 ▼ -28.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 3.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Walpole · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Walpole
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much smaller households than most similar areas define Walpole, where nearly half of all homes are occupied by people living alone. This shift is striking, as the number of single-person homes has jumped 20 percentage points since 2011.
1.8
▼ -28.0%
- 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 Walpole — lower than 99% of areas.
| Walpole | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 6398, WA | 1.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Walpole holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend is driven by a high proportion of single-person households, which now make up 45.3% of all homes.
45.3% ▲ +76.8%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Walpole splits fairly evenly between 1 person (44%) and 2 people (44%), with 4 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 56.4%. One-parent families account for 13.3% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian average.
13.3% ▲ +45.0%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Walpole, Couples without children is the majority at 58%; Couples with children is next at 26%.
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 Walpole [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522061/walpole/topic/family-households