1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Batemans Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Batemans Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift toward smaller living arrangements has seen Batemans Bay become an area where over half of all homes are occupied by just one person. This is a striking contrast to the rest of the country, where typical households are much larger.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Batemans Bay — lower than 91% of areas.
| Batemans Bay | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2536, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 52% of people in single-person households, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. Consequently, the typical home in Batemans Bay has only 1.8 people, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
52.0% ▲ +12.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.1%
- 2016: 49.0%
- 2021: 52.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Batemans Bay, 1 person is the majority at 52%; 2 people is next at 32%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.2% of the local total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples without children are the most common family type at 43.8%, followed by couples with children at 28.3%.
25.2% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Batemans Bay, the largest group is Couples without children at 43%, followed by Couples with children (28%) and One-parent families (25%).
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 Batemans Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10229/batemans-bay/topic/family-households