2.9 ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Duns Creek · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Duns Creek
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become more common in Duns Creek since 2011, with 2.9 people now living in the typical home. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where very few people live by themselves.
2.9
▼ -6.5%
- 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 Duns Creek — higher than 81% of areas.
| Duns Creek | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2321, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 10.2% of people here live alone, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 25%. Most homes contain two people (37.4%) or three people (23%), making the area's household size much higher than most similar places.
10.2% ▲ +21.1%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Duns Creek, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 3 people (23%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 66.8% of families in Duns Creek. This is consistent with the low number of one-parent families, at 6.6%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
6.6% ▼ -27.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Duns Creek, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Duns Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11329/duns-creek/topic/family-households