2.0 ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wartook · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wartook
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Wartook, where the typical home holds just two people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community with a very high proportion of people living on their own.
2.0
▼ -20.0%
- 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 Wartook — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38.7% of residents live alone, which is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why the usual household size is much lower than in most other areas.
38.7% ▲ +74.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wartook, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (22%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of the families here are couples without children, while 42.3% are couples with children. Notably, there are no one-parent families, a figure far below both the state and national averages.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wartook, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 46%.
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 Wartook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22713/wartook/topic/family-households