2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Murwillumbah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Murwillumbah
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 31% of people in Murwillumbah live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This gap highlights a local trend toward smaller households, even though the typical number of people per home is about the same as the state and national averages.
2.4
→ 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 Murwillumbah — lower than 57% of areas.
| Murwillumbah | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2484, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are common here, with 31.1% of people living alone—a figure much higher than most other areas. Two-person households are the most frequent, making up 34.3% of all homes.
31.1% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Murwillumbah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.7% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples with children at 49% and couples without children at 28%.
21.7% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Murwillumbah, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (28%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Murwillumbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12877/murwillumbah/topic/family-households