3.2 ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wallalong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wallalong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become the norm in Wallalong since 2011. This area is now defined by big family homes, with the typical household holding 3.2 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.2
▼ -3.0%
- 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 Wallalong — higher than 89% of areas.
| Wallalong | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 2320, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Few people live alone here, at just 11.9%, which is far below the Australian figure of 25.6%. Instead, large homes are common, with 28.8% of households containing four people.
11.9% ▲ +51.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wallalong splits fairly evenly between 4 people (29%) and 2 people (26%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 74.2% of the local families. This helps explain why one-parent families are only 8.7%, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 14%.
8.7% ▲ +17.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wallalong, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Wallalong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14122/wallalong/topic/family-households