2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wangaratta · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wangaratta
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Wangaratta than in most similar areas. This trend helps explain why the typical home here holds fewer people than the state or national figure. Around 35% of all households consist of just one person.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Wangaratta — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Victoria and Australia figures of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which make up 35.2% of the total.
35.2% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wangaratta splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19% of the total, a figure well above both the state and national averages. Almost half of all families are couples with children, while 30.8% are couples without children.
19.0% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wangaratta, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22680/wangaratta/topic/family-households