2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Evans Head · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Evans Head
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Evans Head than in the rest of the state. This trend means homes here are smaller and have fewer people in them than the national average. Only 2.1 people live in the typical home, compared to 2.5 across Australia.
2.1
→ 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 Evans Head — lower than 81% of areas.
| Evans Head | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2473, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35% of residents live by themselves, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical household size is much lower than in most other areas.
35.0% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Evans Head, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with or without children make up the bulk of families, though one-parent families are more common here at 16.7% than they are across New South Wales.
16.7% ▼ -19.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Evans Head splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 17%.
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 Evans Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11472/evans-head/topic/family-households