1.7 ▼ -10.5%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tamworth · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tamworth
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Tamworth than in the rest of the country, with 60% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home in Tamworth is much smaller than the state or national average.
1.7
▼ -10.5%
- 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 Tamworth — lower than 94% of areas.
| Tamworth | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 2340, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.7 people live in the typical home, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This is driven by the fact that 60% of households are for one person, a rate far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
60.0% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.9%
- 2016: 53.4%
- 2021: 60.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tamworth, 1 person is the majority at 61%; 2 people is next at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 29.9% of the total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples with children at 42.9% and couples without children at 33.8%.
29.9% ▲ +53.3%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 29.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tamworth, the largest group is Couples with children at 40%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (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 Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13762/tamworth/topic/family-households