2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Way Way · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Way Way
How families and households are made up across the area.
Daily life in Way Way is mostly shaped by couples, with more than half of all families consisting of partners without children. This is a small community where household sizes are typical for the region, and single-parent homes are much less common than in the rest of the country.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Way Way — lower than 57% of areas.
| Way Way | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2447, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Most homes here are small, with 46.5% housing just two people and 23.2% housing one person. The typical home has 2.4 people, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
23.2% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Way Way, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 52.5%, while those with children account for 45.6%. Only 8.8% of families are one-parent homes, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1%.
8.8% ▼ -38.2%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Way Way, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (43%) and One-parent families (8%).
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 Way Way [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14220/way-way/topic/family-households