2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wooyung · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wooyung
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 42% of families in Wooyung are couples without children, making this the most common household type. The area is marked by a high number of people living alone and a significant proportion of single-parent families compared to the rest of the country.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Wooyung — higher than 50% of areas.
| Wooyung | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2483, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.4% of people here live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. With an average of 2.5 people per home, Wooyung is about the same as the state and national totals.
30.4% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 51.1%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wooyung splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (30%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 19.7% of the total, a figure that is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is much higher than in most similar areas.
19.7% ▼ -30.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wooyung splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (41%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families at 19%.
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 Wooyung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14436/wooyung/topic/family-households