2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clarence Town · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Clarence Town
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become the norm in Clarence Town, where the typical home now holds 2.8 people. This is much higher than most similar areas, reflecting a community where few people live alone.
2.8
→ 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 Clarence Town — higher than 76% of areas.
| Clarence Town | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2321, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 16.5% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes are shared, with 38% of households containing two people and 18.4% holding four.
16.5% ▲ +5.1%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Clarence Town, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 4 people (18%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 62.3%. This helps explain why one-parent families are less common here at 8.2%, a figure well below the New South Wales rate of 14%.
8.2% ▼ -25.4%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Clarence Town, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Clarence Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10919/clarence-town/topic/family-households