2.1 ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wickepin · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Wickepin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households have grown significantly in Wickepin, where 38.2% of homes are now occupied by one person. This shift has pushed the typical number of people per home down to 2.1 since 2011, making it lower than most similar areas.
2.1
▼ -27.6%
- 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 Wickepin — lower than 71% of areas.
| Wickepin | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6370, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 38.2% of households, a figure far above the national level of 25.6%. This trend is reflected in the small typical home size, which fell from 2.9 people in 2011 to 2.1 in 2021.
38.2% ▲ +31.0%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wickepin splits fairly evenly between 2 people (44%) and 1 person (41%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are much more common here than in most areas, accounting for 21.2% of families. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 13.5% and rose by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
21.2% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wickepin splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (38%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 21%.
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 Wickepin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522065/wickepin/topic/family-households