2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Grafton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Grafton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over 10 percentage points more people live alone in Grafton than in the typical New South Wales home. This trend makes the area stand out, with a high number of small households and a significant proportion of single-parent families.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Grafton — lower than 76% of areas.
| Grafton | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2460, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Grafton are smaller than usual, with only 2.2 people per house compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the 35.4% of residents who live alone, a figure well above the Australian average.
35.4% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Grafton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 22.4% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples with children at 45.9% and those without children at 30.1%.
22.4% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Grafton, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Grafton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11739/grafton/topic/family-households