2.8 ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cargo · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cargo
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing homes in Cargo than in most similar areas. The typical home here holds 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. This is largely driven by a high proportion of families with children living together.
2.8
▲ +7.7%
- 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 Cargo — higher than 76% of areas.
| Cargo | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2800, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far less common here, with only 17.7% of people in single-person homes—well below the New South Wales figure of 25%. Most households contain two people (34.4%) or four people (17.2%).
17.7% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cargo, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 68.2%. In contrast, one-parent families account for 9.5%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
9.5% ▲ +18.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cargo, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Cargo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10812/cargo/topic/family-households