2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Parkes · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Parkes
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Parkes consist of couples with children, making up 51.5% of the total. The area has a high number of people living alone and a notable proportion of one-parent families compared to the rest of the country.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 2 areas
- 2.0: 1 area
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 3 areas
- 2.3: 23 areas
- 2.4: 27 areas
- 2.5: 26 areas
- 2.6: 22 areas
- 2.7: 16 areas
- 2.8: 8 areas
- 2.9: 9 areas
- 3.0: 5 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 2 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All federal electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Parkes — lower than 71% of areas.
| Parkes | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.3% of people in Parkes live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This contributes to a typical home size of 2.4 people, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
30.3% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Parkes splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.1% of the total, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.0% and among the highest for similar areas.
18.1% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 93% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Parkes, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED134/parkes/topic/family-households