2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gwydir · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Gwydir
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are raising children alone in Gwydir than a decade ago, with one-parent families rising by 3.5 percentage points since 2011. The area now has a high number of single-person homes, with 30.2% of the population living alone.
2.3
→ 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 Gwydir — lower than 71% of areas.
| Gwydir | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high 30.2% of people live alone, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. Most homes are small, with 40.5% housing two people and the typical home holding 2.3 residents.
30.2% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gwydir, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 48%, while 36.8% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 14.5% of the total, a figure about the same as the national average.
14.5% ▲ +31.7%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gwydir, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Gwydir [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA13660/gwydir/topic/family-households