1.9 —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carcalgong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Carcalgong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Carcalgong, where 40.7% of homes are occupied by a single person. This creates a living pattern where homes are much smaller than in other areas, with a typical occupancy of just 1.9 people per dwelling.
1.9
—
- 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 Carcalgong — lower than 89% of areas.
| Carcalgong | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2850, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Far more people live alone here than in the rest of the country, with 40.7% of households consisting of one person. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, and helps explain why the typical home in Carcalgong holds only 1.9 people.
40.7% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Carcalgong, 2 people is the majority at 52%; 1 person is next at 48%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 30.8% of the total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Nearly half of all families are couples without children, accounting for 46.2% of the group.
30.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Carcalgong splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (33%) and Couples with children (31%), with One-parent families at 22%.
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 Carcalgong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10806/carcalgong/topic/family-households