3.3 ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wollert · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wollert
How families and households are made up across the area.
Growing numbers of large households have become a hallmark of Wollert since 2011. The area is now defined by families, with the typical home holding 3.3 people—well above the national figure of 2.5. This shift toward larger living groups has made the suburb far less likely to have people living on their own.
3.3
▲ +22.2%
- 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 Wollert — higher than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Wollert are much larger than usual, with 25.8% of households holding four people and 11.8% holding five. Only 12.1% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
12.1% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wollert splits fairly evenly between 4 people (26%) and 2 people (22%), with 3 people at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families here at 74.6%. One-parent families account for 10.0% of the total, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and national averages.
10.0% ▲ +13.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wollert, Couples with children is the majority at 75%; Couples without children is next at 14%.
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 Wollert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22820/wollert/topic/family-households