2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brownsville · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brownsville
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 38% of households in Brownsville are headed by couples with children, marking this as the most common living arrangement. However, the area is defined by a high number of people living alone and a significant proportion of one-parent families. These patterns mean the typical home here is smaller than in most other areas.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Brownsville — lower than 81% of areas.
| Brownsville | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2530, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One-person households are very common, making up 37.2% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Because so many people live alone, the usual home in Brownsville holds only 2.1 people, which is much lower than most areas.
37.2% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brownsville splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (35%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.1% of the total, a figure that is far above the New South Wales average of 14.0% and among the highest for similar areas.
26.1% ▲ +75.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Brownsville splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (38%) and Couples without children (35%), with One-parent families at 26%.
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 Brownsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10609/brownsville/topic/family-households