2.4 ▼ -33.3%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.6
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wiluna · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Wiluna
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone or in single-parent homes in Wiluna than in the rest of the state. While the typical home holds 2.4 people, nearly 43% of households are just one person. This shift is stark, as the number of people living alone has jumped 19 percentage points since 2011.
2.4
▼ -33.3%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Wiluna — lower than 57% of areas.
| Wiluna | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One-person households make up 42.9% of the area, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Overall household size has dropped since 2011, falling from 3.6 to 2.4 people per home.
42.9% ▲ +83.0%
Higher than 98% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wiluna splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (36%), with 5 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are very common here at 35.6%, a figure far above the Western Australian average of 13.5%. This represents a slight fall from 2011, when they made up 38.9% of families.
35.6% ▼ -8.6%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wiluna splits fairly evenly between One-parent families (34%) and Couples without children (31%), with Couples with children at 30%.
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 Wiluna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59250/wiluna/topic/family-households