2.0 —
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wagin · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Wagin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of people in Wagin now live alone, a figure that has jumped 18 points since 2016. This shift has made the town's homes much smaller than the state and national average, with just 2.0 people living in the typical household.
2.0
—
- 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 Wagin — lower than 86% of areas.
| Wagin | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6315, WA | 2.2 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, with 39.3% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the number of people per home has fallen from 2.7 in 2016 to just 2.0 today.
39.3% —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wagin splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.6% of the total, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 5.5 points since 2016. Couples without children are the most common family type at 43.3%.
17.6% —
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wagin, the largest group is Couples without children at 43%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Wagin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515035/wagin/topic/family-households