2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wyalong · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Wyalong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all families in Wyalong are couples without children, making this the most common household type. The area generally has fewer people per home than the national figure, with two-person households being the most frequent arrangement.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Wyalong — lower than 64% of areas.
| Wyalong | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2671, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Wyalong holds 2.2 people, which is lower than most areas and slightly below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. Those living alone make up 25.3% of households, a figure that has fallen 9.5 percentage points since 2011.
25.3% ▼ -27.4%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wyalong, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families account for 16.1% of the total, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has fallen 6.4 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children make up 40.1% of families.
16.1% ▼ -28.5%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wyalong splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (43%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families at 16%.
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 Wyalong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122155/wyalong/topic/family-households