2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wandal · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wandal
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher rates of solo living set Wandal apart from similar areas. While about half of the local families include children, a third of all households consist of just one person. This creates a smaller typical household size compared to the rest of the state.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Wandal — lower than 71% of areas.
| Wandal | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4700, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Wandal holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 33.2% of people live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%.
33.2% ▲ +6.9%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wandal splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.6% of the local mix, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples with children at 48.9% and couples without children at 28.2%.
20.6% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wandal, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (28%) and One-parent families (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 Wandal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32979/wandal/topic/family-households