2.1 —
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wynyard · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Wynyard
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Wynyard consist of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the area has smaller households than the national figure, with a typical home holding only 2.1 people.
2.1
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- 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 Wynyard — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 36.6% of households being single-person homes, which is far above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most frequent, making up 37.7% of the total.
36.6% —
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wynyard splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (37%), with 4 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.7% of the local total, a figure that is well above the national average. Couples with children are the most common family type at 42.3%.
18.7% —
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wynyard splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 19%.
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 Wynyard [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL614003/wynyard/topic/family-households