1.6 ▲ +14.3%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Shellharbour City Centre · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Shellharbour City Centre
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all homes in Shellharbour City Centre are occupied by just one person. This makes it a very small-household area where the typical home holds only 1.6 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
1.6
▲ +14.3%
- 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 Shellharbour City Centre — lower than 97% of areas.
| Shellharbour City Centre | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| 2529, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 52.1% of people here live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This explains why the area has some of the lowest household sizes across the region, with almost no homes containing five or more people.
52.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.6%
- 2021: 52.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Shellharbour City Centre, 1 person is the majority at 51%; 2 people is next at 41%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 72.9%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 7.6% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
7.6% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Shellharbour City Centre, Couples without children is the majority at 74%; Couples with children is next at 19%.
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 Shellharbour City Centre [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13549/shellharbour-city-centre/topic/family-households