2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Shoalhaven Heads · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Shoalhaven Heads
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of people in Shoalhaven Heads live alone, a figure far above the national average. This makes it an area where small households are the norm, with very few homes containing large families.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Shoalhaven Heads — lower than 81% of areas.
| Shoalhaven Heads | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2535, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has only 2.1 people, which is much lower than most areas. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which make up 35.9% of all homes.
35.9% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Shoalhaven Heads splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 44.6%. One-parent families make up 13.3% of the area, which is higher than most similar places but about the same as the state and national figures.
13.3% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Shoalhaven Heads splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Shoalhaven Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13555/shoalhaven-heads/topic/family-households