3.1 → 0.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wakerley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wakerley
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live alone in Wakerley than in most similar areas, making it a place dominated by larger households. The typical home here holds 3.1 people, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5.
3.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Wakerley — higher than 88% of areas.
| Wakerley | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 4154, QLD | 3.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Very few residents live by themselves, with only 10.5% of households being single-person homes—a figure far below the national average of 25.6%. Nearly 30% of homes house four people, and another 10% hold five or more.
10.5% ▲ +13.4%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wakerley splits fairly evenly between 4 people (30%) and 2 people (27%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 74.1%. Only 9.0% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.0% ▲ +1.3%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wakerley, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Wakerley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32955/wakerley/topic/family-households