1.7 ▼ -58.5%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Woomera · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Woomera
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than twice as many people live alone in Woomera compared to the national figure. This creates a distinct home life for the area, where the typical household is much smaller than in the rest of South Australia.
1.7
▼ -58.5%
- 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 Woomera — lower than 99% of areas.
| Woomera | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 5720, SA | 1.7 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Over half the population—57.5%—now live alone, a figure that has risen sharply since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home in Woomera has just 1.7 people, which is well below the Australian average of 2.5.
57.5% ▲ +172.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 57.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Woomera, 1 person is the majority at 59%; 2 people is next at 28%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Only 4.2% of households are one-parent families, which is far below the state and national figures. Most families here are couples, with 47.9% having children and 43.7% without.
4.2% ▼ -78.3%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Woomera splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (50%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 4%.
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 Woomera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422061/woomera/topic/family-households