2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Deepwater · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Deepwater
How families and households are made up across the area.
Household patterns in Deepwater have shifted since 2011, with a notable rise in the number of people living on their own. This is now a place where small households are the norm, as over a third of residents live alone.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Deepwater — lower than 86% of areas.
| Deepwater | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2371, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Deepwater has far more people living alone than most similar areas, with 34.2% of households being single-person homes. This helps explain why the typical home here holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
34.2% ▲ +25.7%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Deepwater, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 47.1%. One-parent families account for 14.0% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas but about the same as the New South Wales average.
14.0% ▼ -29.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Deepwater, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Deepwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11233/deepwater/topic/family-households