2.7 —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wallace · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wallace
How families and households are made up across the area.
A much higher share of one-parent families than the state average defines the home lives of people in Wallace. Most households here are families, with 61.4% being couples with children. The typical home is slightly larger than the national figure, holding around 2.7 people.
2.7
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- 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 Wallace — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 23.7% of people in Wallace live alone, which is a little below the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person households are also common at 23.7%, while 15.8% of homes hold four people.
23.7% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wallace splits fairly evenly between 1 person (28%) and 2 people (28%), with 4 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.3% of the area, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. This is much higher than most similar areas.
19.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wallace, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; One-parent families is next at 20%.
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 Wallace [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22656/wallace/topic/family-households