3.2 —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wild Dog Valley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wild Dog Valley
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Wild Dog Valley house two people, making it a place where few live alone. It is a small, family-oriented area with an unusually high number of people living in each home compared to the rest of the country.
3.2
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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 Wild Dog Valley — higher than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than usual, with 3.2 people per dwelling compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the fact that no one in the area lives alone, which is far below the Victorian average of 25.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wild Dog Valley, 2 people is the majority at 65%; 5 people is next at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.3% of the community, a figure well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. While couples without children are the most common family type at 47.5%, those with children also make up a large share at 42.4%.
20.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wild Dog Valley splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (43%) and Couples with children (38%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Wild Dog Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22783/wild-dog-valley/topic/family-households