2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Parkes · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Parkes
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Parkes than in most similar areas, which shapes the daily life of this community. While the typical home holds about 2.4 people, over 30% of households consist of a single person.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Parkes — lower than 57% of areas.
| Parkes | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2870, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households make up 30.5% of the area, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 25%. This is higher than most other similar areas, though the overall number of people per home is about the same as the national figure.
30.5% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Parkes splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families represent 18.4% of the total, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Most other families here are couples with children, who make up 52.3% of the group.
18.4% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Parkes, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13162/parkes/topic/family-households