2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nambucca Heads · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Nambucca Heads
How families and households are made up across the area.
Changing household patterns have seen Nambucca Heads become an area where many people live on their own. The typical home here is much smaller than the national figure, with 42.4% of all households consisting of just one person.
2.0
→ 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 Nambucca Heads — lower than 86% of areas.
| Nambucca Heads | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2448, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 42.4% of people living alone, Nambucca Heads has one of the highest rates of single-person homes in the region. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.0 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
42.4% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.5%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Nambucca Heads, the largest group is 1 person at 42%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.4% of the local total, a figure that is well above the national average of 14.1%. Other family types are common too, with 39% of families being couples without children and 35.9% being couples with children.
23.4% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Nambucca Heads splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (39%) and Couples with children (36%), with One-parent families at 23%.
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 Nambucca Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12898/nambucca-heads/topic/family-households