2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coonamble · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Coonamble
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of single-parent families now live in Coonamble than the national average. This shift is mirrored in the housing data, where nearly a third of the community lives alone, well above the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Coonamble — lower than 57% of areas.
| Coonamble | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2829, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.3% of people here live alone, which is well above the 25.6% national figure. While the typical home has 2.4 people, the most common household size is two people at 33.7%.
32.3% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Coonamble splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 30.7% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other common family types include couples with children at 41% and couples without children at 26.8%.
30.7% ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Coonamble, the largest group is Couples with children at 41%, followed by One-parent families (31%) and Couples without children (27%).
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 Coonamble [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11044/coonamble/topic/family-households