2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yass Valley · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Yass Valley
How families and households are made up across the area.
Only 20% of people in Yass Valley live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This makes the area stand out for having a much lower proportion of single-person households than most other regions. Instead, the community is shaped by larger households and a high number of family units.
2.7
→ 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 Yass Valley — higher than 86% of areas.
| Yass Valley | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Yass Valley typically hold 2.7 people, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Two-person households are the most common at 35.3%, while those with only one person are much less common than in the rest of the state.
20.0% ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yass Valley, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 62%, and one-parent families are much less common here than across Australia. At 9.8%, the proportion of single-parent families is well below the national average of 14.1%.
9.8% ▲ +10.6%
Lower than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yass Valley, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Yass Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA18710/yass-valley/topic/family-households