1.6 —
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Woods Point · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Sixty per cent of homes in Woods Point are occupied by just one person, marking it as a place with very few large families. This high number of single-person households means the area has a much lower number of people per home than the state or national figures.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Woods Point — lower than 97% of areas.
Average household size.
The typical home here holds only 1.6 people, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 60% of residents live alone, a proportion far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
1.6 —
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
60.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Woods Point, 1 person is the majority at 63%; 2 people is next at 37%.
Family types and one-parent families.
The most common family composition is Couples without children at 44%, ahead of Couples with children (17%).
In Woods Point, Couples without children is the majority at 73%; Couples with children is next at 27%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Woods Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22840/woods-point/topic/family-households