2.7 —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wensleydale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wensleydale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Wensleydale, where nearly 66% of families include children. This is a place where few people live alone and almost no one is raising children as a single parent, creating a residential pattern very different from the state and national averages.
2.7
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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 Wensleydale — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Wensleydale holds 2.7 people, which is higher than most similar areas. Only 21.6% of residents live alone, a figure well below the 25.9% seen across Victoria.
21.6% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wensleydale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 4 people (26%), with 1 person at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with children make up the majority of the area at 65.8%. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, which is far below the 14.1% national figure.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wensleydale, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Wensleydale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22746/wensleydale/topic/family-households