2.0 ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brooms Head · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brooms Head
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Brooms Head than in the rest of the country. This makes it an area where small households are the norm, with the typical home holding just 2.0 people.
2.0
▲ +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 Brooms Head — lower than 86% of areas.
| Brooms Head | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2463, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 46% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the national average of 26%. This explains why the typical household size is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6 people.
45.8% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Brooms Head, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of all families here are couples without children. Single-parent families make up 14.2% of the total, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
14.2% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brooms Head, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Brooms Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10600/brooms-head/topic/family-households