2.0 ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kempsey · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Kempsey
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Kempsey are occupied by just one person, a figure far above the national average. This creates a distinct housing profile where small households are the norm and the typical home holds only two people.
2.0
▲ +5.3%
- 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 Kempsey — lower than 86% of areas.
| Kempsey | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2440, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 47% of households consisting of one person. This is far above the 25.6% national figure, which helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.0 people, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
47.0% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.7%
- 2016: 47.5%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Kempsey, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (28%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 37.3% of the total, which is far above the same figure for Australia and NSW. This is one of the highest proportions of one-parent families among similar areas.
37.3% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Kempsey splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (39%) and One-parent families (37%), with Couples without children at 23%.
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 Kempsey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12103/kempsey/topic/family-households