2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wagin · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wagin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Wagin than in most similar areas. This creates a trend where households are smaller than usual, with only 2.1 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Wagin — lower than 81% of areas.
| Wagin | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 6315, WA | 2.2 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 37.9% of all homes, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 25.4%. Two-person households are also frequent at 40.7%.
37.9% ▲ +19.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wagin splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.6% of the total, a figure well above the 14.1% national average. Couples without children are the most common family type at 42.5%.
17.6% ▲ +31.2%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wagin splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (43%) and Couples with children (39%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Wagin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51501/wagin/topic/family-households