3.3 ▲ +37.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wanaaring · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wanaaring
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than six in ten families in Wanaaring are couples with children, making it the most common household type. This is a place where homes are notably large, with the typical house holding 3.3 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.3
▲ +37.5%
- 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 Wanaaring — higher than 91% of areas.
| Wanaaring | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 2840, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Wanaaring holds 3.3 people, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is reflected in the fact that over 21% of homes house six or more people, while only 17.4% of residents live alone—a figure well below the national average.
17.4% ▼ -25.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wanaaring splits fairly evenly between 2 people (23%) and 6 or more (19%), with 1 person at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 64.6% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 6.2% of the total, which is much lower than most areas and well below the New South Wales figure of 14%.
6.2% ▼ -57.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wanaaring, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Wanaaring [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14144/wanaaring/topic/family-households