2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newcastle · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Newcastle
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 30% of people in Newcastle live on their own, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This reflects a city where a large number of residents live alone, while the typical home size remains steady at about 2.4 people.
2.4
→ 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 Newcastle — lower than 57% of areas.
| Newcastle | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households make up 29.5% of the area, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common at 34.1%, and the overall number of people per home is about the same as the state and national figures.
29.5% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Newcastle splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.4% of families, while one-parent families account for 15.3%. This last group is higher than most areas and a little above the national average, though the figure fell 1.2 percentage points since 2011.
15.3% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newcastle, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Newcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15900/newcastle/topic/family-households