2.5 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cessnock · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Cessnock
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all families in Cessnock are couples with children. This is a community where one-parent families are far more common than in the rest of the state, and the number of people living alone has grown over the last decade.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Cessnock — lower than 57% of areas.
| Cessnock | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2325, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 28.5% of people live alone, which is well above the New South Wales figure and has risen since 2011. The typical home has 2.5 people, a figure that has barely changed in ten years.
28.5% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 65% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cessnock splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen by 5 percentage points since 2011.
26.0% ▲ +23.7%
Higher than 98% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cessnock, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (26%) and Couples without children (26%).
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 Cessnock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/106011108/cessnock/topic/family-households