2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Taralga · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Taralga
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher proportions of people living alone than most similar areas define the home life in Taralga. While half of all families here are couples with children, the typical home is smaller than the national figure, with only 2.1 people per household.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Taralga — lower than 81% of areas.
| Taralga | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2580, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 38.2% of residents live alone, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical household size of 2.1 people is much lower than most other areas.
38.2% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Taralga splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of the families in Taralga are couples with children, while 38.2% are couples without. One-parent families make up 10.7% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.7% ▼ -44.2%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Taralga, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Taralga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13774/taralga/topic/family-households