1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Iluka · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Iluka
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Iluka than in most similar areas. The community is largely made up of small households, with a typical home containing just 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Iluka — lower than 89% of areas.
| Iluka | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2466, NSW | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 36.2% of people here live alone, a figure far above the New South Wales rate of 25%. This explains why the area has much smaller households than most, with nearly half of all homes housing only two people.
36.2% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Iluka, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.3% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% national figure. Most families in the area are couples without children, accounting for 55.1% of the total.
17.3% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Iluka, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with 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 Iluka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11983/iluka/topic/family-households