2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Curraweela · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Curraweela
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small family units and couples define daily life in Curraweela, where most homes house just two people. This quiet residential pattern is reflected in a low number of single-parent families compared to the rest of the country.
2.5
—
- 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 Curraweela — higher than 50% of areas.
| Curraweela | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2580, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Two people live together in 68.2% of homes, making the typical household size of 2.5 people about the same as the national figure. Those living alone make up 22.7% of households, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 25%.
22.7% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Curraweela, 2 people is the majority at 58%; 1 person is next at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families here, with 47.5% having no children and 45.8% having children. Only 8.5% of families are single-parent households, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.5% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Curraweela splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 8%.
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 Curraweela [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11180/curraweela/topic/family-households