2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Macksville · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Macksville
How families and households are made up across the area.
A high number of single-person homes and one-parent families shape the daily life of Macksville. The town is marked by a strong presence of single-parent households, which are far more common here than in the rest of the country.
2.3
→ 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 Macksville — lower than 71% of areas.
| Macksville | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2447, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Macksville are smaller than usual, with just 2.3 people per house compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 31.6% of people live alone, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 25%.
31.6% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Macksville splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.7% of the total, which is far above the Australian average of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 43.8%, while 29.5% of families are couples without children.
24.7% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Macksville, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (30%) 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 Macksville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12439/macksville/topic/family-households