2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Warracknabeal · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Warracknabeal
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller household sizes have become the defining feature of Warracknabeal since 2011. The area now sees a very high number of people living alone, with 40.2% of all homes housing just one person. This shift has left the town with much smaller households than the state and national figures.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Warracknabeal — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes in Warracknabeal house only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person homes, making up 40.2% of all households.
40.2% ▲ +14.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Warracknabeal splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.6% of the total, a figure that is well above the Victorian average of 13.3%. This is alongside a mix of couples with children (41.8%) and those without (38.0%).
18.6% ▲ +38.4%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Warracknabeal splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (38%), 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 Warracknabeal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22697/warracknabeal/topic/family-households