1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Blue Knob · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Blue Knob
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Blue Knob are occupied by just one person. This makes the area stand out from most others, as it has a very high number of single-person households and a much lower typical number of people per home than the national average.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 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 Blue Knob — lower than 89% of areas.
| Blue Knob | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2480, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 49% of people here live alone, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This explains why Blue Knob has only 1.9 people per home, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
49.0% ▲ +111.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 49.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Blue Knob, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 4 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 31% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples without children at 41% and couples with children at 26%.
31.0% ▲ +16.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Blue Knob, the largest group is Couples without children at 39%, followed by One-parent families (30%) and Couples with children (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 Blue Knob [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10415/blue-knob/topic/family-households