2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wynyard · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wynyard
How families and households are made up across the area.
Two-person homes are the most common arrangement in Wynyard, where 38% of households consist of a couple. This is an area with a notable number of people living alone and a higher rate of single-parent families than the national average.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Wynyard — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A little below the national figure, the typical home in Wynyard holds 2.2 people. This is partly because 34.2% of residents live alone, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
34.2% ▲ +16.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wynyard splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (34%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.8% of families here. Single-parent families account for 17.0% of the total, which is a little above the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
17.0% ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wynyard, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Wynyard [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60769/wynyard/topic/family-households