1.7 ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tomago · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tomago
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Tomago are occupied by just one person. This makes it a very small-scale residential area where most households are far smaller than the national average. Only 1.7 people live in the typical home, which is well below the typical Australian household size of 2.5.
1.7
▼ -5.6%
- 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 Tomago — lower than 94% of areas.
| Tomago | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 2322, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 58.3% of all homes. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 25%, while only 26% of homes contain two people.
58.3% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.0%
- 2016: 62.3%
- 2021: 58.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tomago, 1 person is the majority at 58%; 2 people is next at 26%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 29.8% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. Meanwhile, couples without children are the largest family group at 44.3%.
29.8% ▲ +98.9%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tomago, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (32%) and Couples with children (21%).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Tomago
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Tomago [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13907/tomago/topic/family-households