2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Woollahra · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Woollahra
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of homes in Woollahra are occupied by just one person. This makes the area feel less crowded than most, with a typical home holding only 2.2 people. It is a place where single-person living is far more common than across the rest of the country.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 Woollahra — lower than 76% of areas.
| Woollahra | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2025, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33.6% of people here live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why typical households are smaller than in most areas, with only 2.2 people per home.
33.6% ▼ -6.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Woollahra splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families at 52.8%, while 34.2% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 11.5%, which is a little below the same figure for Australia.
11.5% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Woollahra, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Woollahra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14422/woollahra/topic/family-households