2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wedderburn · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wedderburn
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-two percent of homes in Wedderburn are occupied by just one person, which is among the highest rates for any similar area. This trend contributes to a very small typical household size, making the area much less crowded than the state and national figures.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 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 Wedderburn — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 42.4% of people living alone, Wedderburn has a typical household size of 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. Most homes contain either one or two people.
42.4% ▲ +0.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.4%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wedderburn, the largest group is 1 person at 42%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.7% of the community, a figure that is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples without children are the most common family type at 42.4%.
17.7% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wedderburn splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (42%) and Couples with children (39%), with One-parent families at 17%.
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 Wedderburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22733/wedderburn/topic/family-households