1.9 —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Oallen · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Oallen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Oallen are occupied by people living alone. This makes it a sparsely populated area where the typical household size is much smaller than in other parts of the state.
1.9
—
- 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 Oallen — lower than 89% of areas.
| Oallen | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2580, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 45% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 26%. Because of this, Oallen has just 1.9 people per home, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
45.2% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Oallen, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families are couples without children, while one-parent families make up 17.6% of the total. This is well above both the state and national figures, which sit around 14%.
17.6% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Oallen, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (34%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Oallen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13073/oallen/topic/family-households