2.4 ▼ -17.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Myrtle Creek · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Myrtle Creek
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a quarter of families in Myrtle Creek are headed by a single parent, which is far above the national figure. This makes it one of the areas with the highest proportion of one-parent families at its level. Most homes are small, typically housing around two people.
2.4
▼ -17.2%
- 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 Myrtle Creek — lower than 57% of areas.
| Myrtle Creek | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2469, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 23.5% of people live alone, which is a little below the figures for New South Wales and Australia. The most common home size is two people, making up 47.1% of all households.
23.5% ▲ +13.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Myrtle Creek, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 3 people (23%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.6% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples without children are the largest group at 38.5%, followed by couples with children at 27.7%.
24.6% ▲ +190.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Myrtle Creek, the largest group is Couples without children at 42%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (27%).
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 Myrtle Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12890/myrtle-creek/topic/family-households