2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wellington · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Wellington
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Wellington than in most similar areas. This trend helps explain why the typical home here is smaller than the state average, with 35.8% of households consisting of just one person.
2.3
▲ +4.5%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Wellington — lower than 57% of areas.
| Wellington | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2820, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 35.8% of households being single-person homes, a figure far above the national level of 25.6%. Because of this, the 2.3 people per home is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
35.8% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wellington splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 29.3% of the local total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This figure has risen by 5.1 percentage points since 2011.
29.3% ▲ +21.3%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wellington, the largest group is Couples with children at 40%, followed by One-parent families (29%) and Couples without children (29%).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Wellington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115155/wellington/topic/family-households