2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cooma · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cooma
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Cooma than in most other similar areas, which shapes the local housing landscape. With 34.5% of households consisting of just one person, the typical home here is smaller than the national average.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Cooma — lower than 76% of areas.
| Cooma | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2630, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, sitting well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. Because of this, the typical home in Cooma holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
34.5% ▲ +3.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cooma splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of all families here are couples with children, while 16.3% are one-parent families. This last group is much more common here than in most similar areas and sits a little above the 14.1% national average.
16.3% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cooma, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11036/cooma/topic/family-households