2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Newtown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of all homes in Newtown are occupied by people living alone, a figure far above the national average. This creates a community of small households, where just 2.1 people typically live in each home. It is a place defined by single residents and couples rather than large family groups.
2.1
→ 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 Newtown — lower than 81% of areas.
| Newtown | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2042, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 36.5% of all homes. This is much higher than most areas and far above the 25.6% national figure, which helps explain why the typical home in Newtown holds only 2.1 people.
36.5% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Newtown splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 45%. While couples with children are also common at 43.9%, one-parent families are much less frequent here than in the rest of the state, at only 9.3%.
9.3% ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Newtown splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12969/newtown/topic/family-households