2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
North Wollongong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in North Wollongong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small, single-person households dominate daily life in North Wollongong, where 38% of residents live alone. This makes the area much more likely to have one-person homes than most other parts of the country. With very few people per home, it is a place defined by smaller living arrangements.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is North Wollongong — lower than 86% of areas.
| North Wollongong | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2500, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in North Wollongong holds only 2 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 38% of households are for one person, a figure far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
38.0% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →North Wollongong splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of all families here are couples without children, making up 48.1% of the group. One-parent families account for 13.4% of the total, which is higher than most areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
13.4% ▼ -27.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In North Wollongong, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 North Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13027/north-wollongong/topic/family-households