3.3 ▼ -5.7%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 3.5
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Oakhurst · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Oakhurst
How families and households are made up across the area.
Crowded homes are a common feature of daily life in Oakhurst, where 3.3 people live in the typical household. This is well above the national figure of 2.5. The area is dominated by families, with very few people living on their own compared to the rest of the country.
3.3
▼ -5.7%
- 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 Oakhurst — higher than 91% of areas.
| Oakhurst | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 2761, NSW | 3.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Oakhurst has some of the highest numbers of people per home at this level, with 24.7% of households containing four people. Only 12.4% of residents live alone, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 25.0%.
12.4% ▲ +28.8%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Oakhurst splits fairly evenly between 4 people (25%) and 2 people (24%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of the area at 68.7%. One-parent families account for 15.3% of the total, which is a little above the Australian average of 14.1%.
15.3% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Oakhurst, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; Couples without children is next at 15%.
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 Oakhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13069/oakhurst/topic/family-households