2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greater Hume Shire · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Greater Hume Shire
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family life in Greater Hume Shire is dominated by couples, with 87.4% of families consisting of partners living together. This stability is reflected in the household data, where the typical home holds 2.5 people, a figure that has remained steady for a decade.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 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 Greater Hume Shire — higher than 71% of areas.
| Greater Hume Shire | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Two-person homes are the most common here, making up 38% of all households. About 25.4% of people live alone, which is lower than in most other similar areas.
25.4% ▲ +0.0%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Greater Hume Shire, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 57.1%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 12.1%, which is a little below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
12.1% ▲ +3.3%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greater Hume Shire, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Greater Hume Shire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA13340/greater-hume-shire/topic/family-households