2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Batehaven · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Batehaven than in the rest of the country, with 36.9% of households consisting of just one person. This trend contributes to the area having a much smaller typical household size than both the state and national figures.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Batehaven — lower than 86% of areas.
| Batehaven | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2536, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
With only 2.0 people per home, Batehaven is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person homes, which are much more common here than in most other areas.
2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
36.9% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Batehaven splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 10%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 22.8% of the total, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average of 14.0%. Couples without children are the most common family type at 43.8%.
22.8% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Batehaven, the largest group is Couples without children at 44%, followed by Couples with children (33%) and One-parent families (23%).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Batehaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10228/batehaven/topic/family-households