2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Minnie Water · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Minnie Water
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 30% of homes in Minnie Water are occupied by people living alone, which is well above the national figure. This creates a community where smaller households are common and the typical home holds fewer people than in most other areas.
2.2
→ 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 Minnie Water — lower than 76% of areas.
| Minnie Water | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2462, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The usual home here holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. Two-person households are the most frequent, making up 43.5% of the total.
29.4% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Minnie Water, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with and without children each make up 44.6% of families. One-parent families account for 10.1%, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
10.1% ▲ +118.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Minnie Water splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 Minnie Water [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12651/minnie-water/topic/family-households