2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lightning Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lightning Ridge
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 45% of people live alone in Lightning Ridge, which is far above the national figure. This makes the town's households much smaller than usual, with the typical home holding only two people. Many residents live in single-person households or one-parent families.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 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 Lightning Ridge — lower than 86% of areas.
| Lightning Ridge | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2834, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 44.3% of households containing just one person. This is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia, which helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.0 people—well below the national figure of 2.5.
44.3% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.2%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lightning Ridge, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.1% of the total, a figure far above both the state and national averages of around 14%. Other family types include couples with children at 39.8% and couples without children at 34.4%.
25.1% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lightning Ridge, the largest group is Couples with children at 40%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (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 Lightning Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12329/lightning-ridge/topic/family-households