2.7 —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wantagong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wantagong
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live together in Wantagong than in most similar areas, with a typical home holding 2.7 people. It is a place where families are the norm, though a surprising number of people also live on their own.
2.7
—
- 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 Wantagong — higher than 71% of areas.
| Wantagong | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 2644, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30% of residents live alone, which is well above the 25% seen across Australia and New South Wales. However, larger homes are still common, with 20% of households containing four people and 15% containing five.
30.0% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wantagong splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 1 person (23%), with 3 people at 23%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 66.7%. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, a figure far below the 14% national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wantagong, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Wantagong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14155/wantagong/topic/family-households