Warracknabeal · Urban Centre

Family & Households in Warracknabeal

How families and households are made up across the area.

A far higher share of people live alone in Warracknabeal than in the rest of Victoria. This shift has driven a drop in the typical number of people per home, which fell from 2.7 in 2011 to just 2.0 in 2021.

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📍 Warracknabeal, Urban Centre

Where Warracknabeal sits — Average household size

2.0 ▼ -25.9%
  • 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 Warracknabeal — lower than 86% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Warracknabeal2.0
3393, VIC 2.1
Victoria 2.5
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

Single-person households make up 41.1% of the area, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the 2.0 people per home is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.

2.0 ▼ -25.9%

Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.7
  • 2016: 3.3
  • 2021: 2.0

Average number of people usually resident per household.

41.1% ▲ +94.2%

Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 21.2%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 41.1%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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In Warracknabeal, the largest group is 1 person at 41%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 3 people (11%).

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

One-parent families make up 19.5% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This figure has risen 3.1 percentage points since 2011.

19.5% ▲ +19.1%

Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 16.4%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 19.5%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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Warracknabeal splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 20%.

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 Warracknabeal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215089/warracknabeal/topic/family-households