1.8 ▼ -43.8%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Willaura · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Willaura
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Willaura are occupied by people living alone. This is a striking shift for the area, as the number of single-person households has surged over the last decade. Small household sizes now define the local landscape.
1.8
▼ -43.8%
- 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 Willaura — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Willaura holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This drop is driven by a rise in people living alone, who now make up 45.3% of households—far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
45.3% ▲ +219.6%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Willaura, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (41%) and 3 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.1% of the local total, a figure far above the 14.1% national average. This is a notable increase from 2011, when only 10.2% of families were headed by a single parent.
24.1% ▲ +136.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Willaura, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (30%) and One-parent families (23%).
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 Willaura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222100/willaura/topic/family-households