2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tenterden · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family structures in Tenterden have remained steady, with a strong presence of both couples with and without children. The area is mostly made up of family homes, though it has a much lower share of single-parent households than the state and national figures.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Tenterden — lower than 57% of areas.
| Tenterden | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2365, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
People live in households of about 2.4 people, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the New South Wales and Australian figures.
2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
In Tenterden, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 5 people (30%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 42.9% of families, while those with children account for 40.0%. One-parent families make up only 8.6% of the total, which is well below the New South Wales and Australian figures.
8.6% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Tenterden splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 9%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Tenterden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13806/tenterden/topic/family-households