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Woollahra Municipality

Family blending

In 2021, Woollahra Municipality had 7.6% of couple families with children in step families and 1.6% in blended families.

Information on blended and intact families can be an indicator of the level of family breakup and repartnering within the area, and a potential indicator of socio-economic disadvantage. Family blending only applies to couple families with children. For information more broadly about household and family types, including single-parent families, please see Household Type, Households with Children, and Households without Children.

Q:

Derived from the Census question:

'What is the person's relationship (to each other person in the household)?'

Family blending
Woollahra Municipality - Total couples with children (Enumerated)20212016Change
Family blending by typeNumber%Greater Sydney %Number%Greater Sydney %2016 to 2021
Intact Family 4,98090.690.55,19893.492.0-218
Step family 4207.66.72734.95.0+147
Blended family 901.62.5921.72.7-2
Other couple family 50.10.340.10.3+1
Total couples with children5,495100.0100.05,567100.0100.0-72
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions).
Please refer to specific data notes for more information

Dominant groups

Analysis of the family blending in Woollahra Municipality in 2021 compared to Greater Sydney shows that there was a higher proportion of step families as well as a higher proportion of blended families. Overall, 7.6% of total couple families with children were step families, and 1.6% were blended families, compared with 6.7% and 2.5% respectively for Greater Sydney.

There were a similar proportion of other families and a similar proportion of couples without children. Overall, the proportion of other families was 0.1% compared to 0.3% in Greater Sydney while the proportion of intact families was 90.6% compared to 90.5% in Greater Sydney.

Emerging groups

The number of couple families with children in Woollahra Municipality decreased by 72 between 2016 and 2021.

The largest changes in family blending in Woollahra Municipality between 2016 and 2021 were:

  • Intact Family (-218 couples with children)
  • Step family (+147 couples with children)

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