1.7 —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wyalkatchem · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Wyalkatchem
How families and households are made up across the area.
Very few people per home make Wyalkatchem (L) stand out compared to similar areas. Over half of all households consist of just one person, creating a residential profile that is far different from the rest of the state.
1.7
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- 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 Wyalkatchem — lower than 99% of areas.
| Wyalkatchem | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 6485, WA | 1.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 51.1% of households being single person homes. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, which helps explain why the typical home has only 1.7 people, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
51.1% —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wyalkatchem, 1 person is the majority at 55%; 2 people is next at 33%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.5% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples without children are the most common family type at 42.4%.
26.5% —
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wyalkatchem, the largest group is Couples without children at 43%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (27%).
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 Wyalkatchem [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522069/wyalkatchem/topic/family-households