Tarro · Suburb / Locality

Family & Households in Tarro

How families and households are made up across the area.

A high number of people living alone shapes daily life in Tarro. This trend is reflected in the typical home, which holds only 2.3 people, a figure slightly below the national average.

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📍 Tarro, Suburb / Locality

Where Tarro sits — Average household size

2.3 ▼ -8.0%
  • 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 Tarro — lower than 71% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Tarro2.3
2322, NSW 2.7
New South Wales 2.6
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

Around 33.9% of households are people living alone, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25.0%. This helps explain why homes here are smaller than most, with two-person households being the most common at 34.4%.

2.3 ▼ -8.0%

Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.5
  • 2016: 2.4
  • 2021: 2.3

Average number of people usually resident per household.

33.9% ▲ +27.8%

Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 26.6%
  • 2016: 29.0%
  • 2021: 33.9%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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Tarro splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 14%.

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

One-parent families make up 18.3% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% national average. Nearly half of all families here are couples with children, at 46.8%.

18.3% ▼ -3.9%

Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 19.0%
  • 2016: 17.4%
  • 2021: 18.3%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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In Tarro, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (18%).

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 Tarro [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13786/tarro/topic/family-households