2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bourke · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Bourke
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Bourke than in most similar areas, with 31.4% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes exists alongside a family structure where one-parent households are much more common than the national figure.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Bourke — higher than 71% of areas.
| Bourke | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31.4% of people live alone, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. The typical home has 2.5 people, a number that is about the same as the national average and has edged down slightly since 2011.
31.4% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bourke splits fairly evenly between 1 person (32%) and 2 people (29%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.1% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. This proportion has remained steady since 2011, while couples with children represent the largest family group at 53.7%.
19.1% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bourke, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Bourke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11150/bourke/topic/family-households