3.0 ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wadalba · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wadalba
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most areas define Wadalba, where the typical home holds 3.0 people. This is a family-heavy community with a notably low number of people living alone compared to the rest of the state.
3.0
▲ +11.1%
- 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 Wadalba — higher than 86% of areas.
| Wadalba | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2259, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home here holds 3.0 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Only 17.9% of households consist of one person, a figure well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
17.9% ▼ -32.4%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wadalba splits fairly evenly between 2 people (25%) and 4 people (22%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 63.1%. One-parent families account for 20.0% of the total, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
20.0% ▲ +57.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wadalba, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; One-parent families is next at 20%.
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 Wadalba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14098/wadalba/topic/family-households