2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kamarah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Kamarah
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of families in Kamarah are couples with children. This small community has a much higher rate of single-parent families than the national average, while far fewer people live alone compared to the rest of the state.
2.5
—
- 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 Kamarah — higher than 50% of areas.
| Kamarah | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2665, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Kamarah houses 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. Only 20% of households are people living alone, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 25%.
20.0% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kamarah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 3 people (31%), with 1 person at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 32.4% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. This puts Kamarah among the highest areas for single-parent families at this level.
32.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Kamarah splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (33%), with Couples without children at 30%.
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 Kamarah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12061/kamarah/topic/family-households