2.8 —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wallacedale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wallacedale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the biggest slice of the pie in Wallacedale, where 60.7% of families fit this description. The area is defined by larger homes and very few people living by themselves, making it much more family-oriented than the state and national averages.
2.8
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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 Wallacedale — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 2.8 people per dwelling compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the very low number of people living alone, at just 9.1%, which is far below the Victorian average of 25.9%.
9.1% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wallacedale, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 4 people (16%) and 1 person (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children are the most common, accounting for 60.7% of households. One-parent families make up 10.7% of the total, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.7% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wallacedale, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Wallacedale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22657/wallacedale/topic/family-households