1.7 ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.4
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Woomera · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Woomera
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all homes in Woomera are occupied by a single person, a figure far above the national average. This makes it an area of very small households, where the typical home contains only 1.7 people.
1.7
▼ -15.0%
- 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 Woomera — lower than 94% of areas.
| Woomera | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 5720, SA | 1.7 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 57.5% of residents live alone, which is far above the South Australian figure of 28.5%. Because of this, Woomera has some of the lowest numbers of people per home in the country at just 1.7.
57.5% ▲ +49.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 62.9%
- 2021: 57.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Woomera, 1 person is the majority at 59%; 2 people is next at 28%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 4.2% of the area, which is far below the 14.1% national figure. Most families here are couples, with 47.9% having children and 43.7% without.
4.2% ▼ -82.9%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Woomera splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (50%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 4%.
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 Woomera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41655/woomera/topic/family-households