2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bowraville · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bowraville
How families and households are made up across the area.
About 39% of families in Bowraville are couples with children, making them the most common family type. The area has a high number of people living alone and a very high rate of one-parent families compared to the rest of the country. This contributes to a smaller typical household size than seen across Australia.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Bowraville — lower than 71% of areas.
| Bowraville | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2449, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Few people live in each home here, with the typical number being 2.3. This is a little below the national figure of 2.5, and is driven by the 32% of people living alone, which is well above the New South Wales rate of 25%.
32.0% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bowraville splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 33.4% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.1% and among the highest for areas of this type.
33.4% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bowraville, the largest group is Couples with children at 40%, followed by One-parent families (34%) and Couples without 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 Bowraville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10535/bowraville/topic/family-households