2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wollongong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wollongong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of all homes in Wollongong are occupied by just one person. This high number of single-person households means the area has a much smaller typical home size than other parts of the state. Most homes here house only one or two people.
2.0
→ 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 Wollongong — lower than 86% of areas.
| Wollongong | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2500, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than across Australia, with 37.4% of people in their own home. This helps explain why the typical home in Wollongong has only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
37.4% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 37.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wollongong splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 47.5%. One-parent families account for 13.2% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas but about the same as the New South Wales average.
13.2% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wollongong, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14376/wollongong/topic/family-households