2.4 ▼ -33.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wiluna · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wiluna
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 43% of people in Wiluna live on their own, making it an area where single-person households are far more common than in most other places. This trend contributes to a typical household size of 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.4
▼ -33.3%
- 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 Wiluna — lower than 57% of areas.
| Wiluna | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 6646, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here at 42.9%, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. Other households are mostly two-person homes at 36.9%, while 6% have six or more people.
42.9% ▲ +83.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wiluna, the largest group is 1 person at 40%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 5 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 36.4% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples without children (32.1%) and couples with children (27.9%) also make up a large part of the family mix.
36.4% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wiluna splits fairly evenly between One-parent families (36%) and Couples without children (31%), with Couples with children 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 Wiluna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51618/wiluna/topic/family-households