2.9 —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Arkell · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Arkell
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become more common in Arkell, where an average of 2.9 people now live in each home. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5 and suggests a shift towards bigger living groups in the area.
2.9
—
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Arkell — higher than 81% of areas.
| Arkell | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2795, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 2.9 people per home, Arkell has much higher occupancy than most similar areas and sits slightly above the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
Household size
View on map →In Arkell, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 3 people (39%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 31% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 58.6%, followed by couples without children at 27.6%.
31.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Arkell, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by One-parent families (26%) and Couples without children (24%).
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 Arkell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10083/arkell/topic/family-households