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.
Wycheproof · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wycheproof
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become the norm in Wycheproof, where the typical home now holds just two people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, creating a community where living alone or in pairs is far more common than in most other areas.
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 Wycheproof — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 38% of residents live alone, a figure far above the Victorian average of 25.9%. Because of this, two-person homes are the most common, making up 40.1% of all households.
37.9% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wycheproof splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.2% of families, while couples without children account for 40.7%. One-parent families represent 14.4% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas.
14.4% ▲ +46.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wycheproof splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (41%), with One-parent families 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 Wycheproof [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22877/wycheproof/topic/family-households