2.0 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Pilliga · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Pilliga
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living together in Pilliga compared to the rest of the country. This sparsely populated area is now defined by a high number of single-person homes, with only 2.0 people living in the typical household.
2.0
—
- 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 Pilliga — lower than 86% of areas.
| Pilliga | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2388, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 40% of people in Pilliga live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This explains why the typical home has just 2.0 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
39.7% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Pilliga splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.1% of the local total, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 43.4%.
24.1% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Pilliga, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (25%).
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 Pilliga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13217/pilliga/topic/family-households