4.2 ▼ -4.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 4.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Warmun · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Warmun
How families and households are made up across the area.
A gap of 30 percentage points separates Warmun from the national average for one-parent families. This small community is defined by very large households, with the typical home holding 4.2 people—far more than the Australian figure of 2.5. These figures highlight a family structure quite different from the rest of the country.
4.2
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Warmun — higher than 99% of areas.
| Warmun | 4.2 |
|---|---|
| 6743, WA | 2.7 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Warmun are much larger than most, with 38.3% of households containing six or more people. While 24.5% of residents live alone—about the same as in Western Australia—the overall number of people per home has edged down slightly since 2011.
24.5% ▲ +11.2%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Warmun, the largest group is 6 or more at 36%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 44.5% of the community, a figure that is far above the Western Australian average and has risen by 18 points since 2011. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while couples without children make up only 5.6%.
44.5% ▲ +65.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 44.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Warmun splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and One-parent families (45%), with Couples without children at 6%.
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 Warmun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522064/warmun/topic/family-households