2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Werneth · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Werneth
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Werneth compared to the rest of the state. This area is mostly made up of family groups, with a typical home holding 2.6 people. The most striking feature is how rare single-person households are here compared to national trends.
2.6
—
- 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 Werneth — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 13% of people live alone, which is far below the Victorian and national figures of around 26%. Most households in Werneth contain two people (47.8%) or four people (17.4%).
13.0% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Werneth, 2 people is the majority at 61%; 4 people is next at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.1% of the total, a figure well above both the state and national averages. Couples with children (33.3%) and couples without children (29.8%) are also common family types here.
21.1% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Werneth splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (40%) and Couples without children (35%), with One-parent families at 25%.
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 Werneth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22748/werneth/topic/family-households