2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wonthaggi · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wonthaggi
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households and a high number of single-person homes define the daily life of Wonthaggi. While the typical home here has only 2.0 people—well below the national figure of 2.5—there is also a strong presence of one-parent families.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Wonthaggi — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A huge 41.8% of people in Wonthaggi live alone, which is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical household size is so much lower than in most other areas.
41.8% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wonthaggi, the largest group is 1 person at 42%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.4% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% national average. Roughly 40% of families are couples with children, while 38% are couples without.
21.4% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wonthaggi splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (40%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 21%.
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 Wonthaggi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22829/wonthaggi/topic/family-households