2.3 ▲ +9.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Quaama · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Quaama
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people share a home in Quaama than in most other Australian areas. The typical household is smaller than the national figure, and there are far fewer one-parent families here than across New South Wales.
2.3
▲ +9.5%
- 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 Quaama — lower than 71% of areas.
| Quaama | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2550, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Quaama usually hold 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. About half of all households consist of two people, while 23% of residents live alone.
23.0% ▼ -32.9%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Quaama, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up only 9.1% of the total, a figure well below the 14.1% national average. The rest of the community is split almost evenly between couples with children (43.3%) and those without (43.7%).
9.1% ▲ +69.7%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Quaama splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) 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 Quaama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13298/quaama/topic/family-households