2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wrights Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wrights Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Wrights Beach than in the rest of the state. This small coastal area is largely made up of couples, with nearly half of all homes housing partners with children.
2.2
—
- 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 Wrights Beach — lower than 76% of areas.
| Wrights Beach | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2540 crosses NSW/OT | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with just 2.2 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 28% of residents live alone, which is well above the New South Wales rate of 25%.
28.0% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wrights Beach, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 1 person is next at 27%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families, with 48% having children and 46.1% without. Only 5.9% of families are led by one parent, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
5.9% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wrights Beach splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 6%.
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 Wrights Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14446/wrights-beach/topic/family-households