2.9 ▼ -12.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wildwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wildwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly three people per home make Wildwood a place where households are larger than most. While the typical Australian home has 2.5 people, the figure here is 2.9. This trend is driven by a high number of families with children and far fewer people living on their own.
2.9
▼ -12.1%
- 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 Wildwood — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 20.9% of residents live alone, which is well below the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why homes here are larger than usual, with 31.3% of households containing two people and 14.9% holding five.
20.9% ▲ +213.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wildwood, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.8%. One-parent families account for 13.5% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas but about the same as the Victorian average.
13.5% ▲ +242.5%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wildwood, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; 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 Wildwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22784/wildwood/topic/family-households