2.5 ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Woollamia · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Woollamia
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are much more common in Woollamia than in most similar areas. This is a place where families dominate the landscape, and the number of people living in each home has edged up slightly since 2011.
2.5
▲ +4.2%
- 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 Woollamia — higher than 64% of areas.
| Woollamia | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2540 crosses NSW/OT | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. While 39% of households consist of two people, those living alone make up 23.4% of the area, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
23.4% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Woollamia, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families (56.8%). Meanwhile, one-parent families represent only 8.7% of the total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1% and a huge drop from 33.1% in 2011.
8.7% ▼ -73.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Woollamia, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Woollamia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122153/woollamia/topic/family-households