2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wamberal · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wamberal
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become more common in Wamberal, where the typical home now holds 2.9 people. This is much higher than most similar areas and reflects a community with far fewer people living alone than the national average.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Wamberal — higher than 81% of areas.
| Wamberal | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2260, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With only 16.7% of residents living alone, this figure is well below the national average of 25.6%. Most homes are larger than usual, with 32.4% housing two people and 21.1% holding four people.
16.7% ▲ +1.2%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wamberal, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 1 person (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the area at 65.5%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10.2% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
10.2% ▼ -11.9%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wamberal, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Wamberal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14140/wamberal/topic/family-households