2.1 ▼ -22.2%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carcoar · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Carcoar
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home than most areas is the main trend for Carcoar, where 37.1% of households consist of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home is smaller than those in the rest of the state.
2.1
▼ -22.2%
- 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 Carcoar — lower than 81% of areas.
| Carcoar | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2791, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 37.1% of people living alone, Carcoar has a much higher rate than the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why there are only 2.1 people per home, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
37.1% ▲ +55.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Carcoar, the largest group is 1 person at 37%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of the local families are couples with children, while 39.5% are couples without. One-parent families make up 13.0% of the mix, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
13.0% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Carcoar, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Carcoar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10807/carcoar/topic/family-households