2.8 ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Marrar · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Marrar
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Marrar, where 2.8 people typically live in each home. This is a family-heavy community where very few people live alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.8
▼ -9.7%
- 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 Marrar — higher than 76% of areas.
| Marrar | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2652, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 14.2% of people live alone, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 25%. This explains why home sizes are larger here, with 40.8% of households containing two people and 16.7% holding five.
14.2% ▲ +27.5%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Marrar, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 5 people (16%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 66.2% raising children and 30% without. Only 1.0% of families are single-parent homes, a figure far below both the state and national averages.
1.0% ▼ -95.7%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Marrar, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next 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 Marrar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12513/marrar/topic/family-households