3.2 ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Woongarrah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Woongarrah
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a roof in Woongarrah than in most other similar areas, with a typical home holding 3.2 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where large households are the norm and very few people live on their own.
3.2
▼ -3.0%
- 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 Woongarrah — higher than 89% of areas.
| Woongarrah | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 2259, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 10.3% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% national average. This helps explain why households are larger here, with 25.6% of homes holding four people and another 11.8% holding five.
10.3% ▲ +28.6%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Woongarrah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 4 people (26%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families make up the vast majority of the community, and 66.9% of them are couples with children. One-parent families make up 14.9% of the total, which is higher than most areas but about the same as the New South Wales figure.
14.9% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Woongarrah, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 18%.
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 Woongarrah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14433/woongarrah/topic/family-households