2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nambucca Heads · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Nambucca Heads
How families and households are made up across the area.
About 42% of homes in Nambucca Heads are occupied by just one person, the highest proportion of any category in the area. This high number of single-person households means the town has a much smaller typical home size than the rest of the state.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Nambucca Heads — lower than 93% of areas.
| Nambucca Heads | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2448, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 41.6% of people living alone, the number of people per home is just 2.0, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5. This trend of smaller households has edged down since 2011, when the typical home held 2.1 people.
41.6% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 98% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Nambucca Heads, the largest group is 1 person at 42%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 23% of the local total, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 14%. Other family types are also common, with couples without children making up 38.9% of families.
23.0% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 92% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Nambucca Heads splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (39%) and Couples with children (36%), with One-parent families at 23%.
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 Nambucca Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/108021158/nambucca-heads/topic/family-households