2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eureka · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eureka
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Eureka than in most similar areas. The community is marked by a high proportion of one-parent families, which are well above the national figure.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 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 Eureka — higher than 50% of areas.
| Eureka | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2480, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 28.7% of people live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Despite this, the typical home has 2.5 people, a figure that is about the same as the state and national average.
28.7% ▲ +35.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Eureka splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (28%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.2% of the area, which is much higher than most other areas and well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Most other families are couples with children (44.5%) or couples without children (32.0%).
20.2% ▲ +51.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eureka, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (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 Eureka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11464/eureka/topic/family-households