1.8 ▼ -21.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wool Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wool Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 67% of families are couples without children in Wool Bay. This makes the area feel quite different from the national norm, with a small number of people living in each home and a very high proportion of single-person households.
1.8
▼ -21.7%
- 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 Wool Bay — lower than 91% of areas.
| Wool Bay | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5575, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.8 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 41.3% of people live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
41.3% ▲ +90.0%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 45.1%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wool Bay, 2 people is the majority at 53%; 1 person is next at 35%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 6.6% of the total, which is much lower than most areas and well below the South Australian figure of 14.8%.
6.6% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wool Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 66%; Couples with children is next at 27%.
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 Wool Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41649/wool-bay/topic/family-households