2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wattle Flat · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wattle Flat
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become more common in Wattle Flat, where the typical home now holds just 2.2 people. This is lower than the national figure, reflecting a community where nearly a third of residents live on their own.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Wattle Flat — lower than 76% of areas.
| Wattle Flat | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2795, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.7% of people here live alone, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. These single-person homes, alongside two-person households at 43.6%, mean the area has fewer people per home than most other places.
32.7% ▼ -12.4%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wattle Flat, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 4 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45.6% of families, while those without children account for 44.5%. One-parent families represent 12.1% of the total, a figure that is a little below the Australian average of 14.1%.
12.1% ▼ -43.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wattle Flat splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Wattle Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14209/wattle-flat/topic/family-households