1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dargan · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dargan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples without children make up 61.1% of families in Dargan, the largest family group in the area. This high number of couples and a large proportion of single-person homes mean that houses here are typically much smaller than in other parts of the country.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Dargan — lower than 91% of areas.
| Dargan | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2786, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Dargan are small, with only 1.8 people per home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the fact that 31.3% of people live alone, a rate much higher than most other areas.
31.3% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Dargan, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.7% of the total, which is a little above the Australian figure of 14.1% and much higher than most similar areas.
16.7% ▼ -34.2%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dargan, Couples without children is the majority at 62%; Couples with children is next at 21%.
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 Dargan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11208/dargan/topic/family-households