2.8 —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wadderin · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wadderin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Wadderin than in most similar areas. The community is defined by larger living arrangements, with a typical home holding 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5.
2.8
—
- 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 Wadderin — higher than 76% of areas.
| Wadderin | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 6369, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all households consist of two people, while 14.8% of residents live alone. This proportion of single-person homes is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
14.8% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wadderin, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 4 people (25%) and 1 person (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life in Wadderin is dominated by couples, with 62.5% raising children and 31.9% without. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, a figure far below the national average of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wadderin, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Wadderin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51495/wadderin/topic/family-households