2.7 ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wheelers Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wheelers Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer than 20% of people live alone in Wheelers Hill, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This is a place where most homes are shared, with a strong presence of larger family units. The typical household has 2.7 people, slightly higher than the Australian average.
2.7
▼ -3.6%
- 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 Wheelers Hill — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Most homes here house two people (33.8%) or four people (19.9%). This explains why people living alone are much less common here than in most other areas, sitting at just 19.8%.
19.8% ▲ +38.2%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wheelers Hill, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 62%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10.3%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.3% ▲ +15.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wheelers Hill, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Wheelers Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22766/wheelers-hill/topic/family-households