3.2 ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Woodford · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Woodford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger home sizes define daily life in Woodford, where the typical house holds 3.2 people. This is well above the Victorian and national figures of 2.5, reflecting a community where few people live by themselves.
3.2
▲ +10.3%
- 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 Woodford — higher than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 9.8% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% national average. This helps explain why the area has some of the highest numbers of people per home in the region.
9.8% ▼ -33.1%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Woodford, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 71.6% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 5.5%, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and Australian averages.
5.5% ▼ -35.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Woodford, Couples with children is the majority at 72%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Woodford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22836/woodford/topic/family-households