2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Largs · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Largs
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Largs, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This trend is driven by a high proportion of families with children and a notably low number of people living on their own.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Largs — higher than 76% of areas.
| Largs | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2320, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 19.1% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes house two people (31.7%), but a significant 21.2% contain four people.
19.1% ▲ +28.3%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Largs, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 61.2%. One-parent families account for 13.4% of the total, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the state average.
13.4% ▲ +60.4%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Largs, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Largs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12287/largs/topic/family-households