2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tweed Heads · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tweed Heads
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small living arrangements define Tweed Heads, where the typical home holds just two people. This is far fewer than the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a place where many residents live independently or in small pairings.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 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 Tweed Heads — lower than 86% of areas.
| Tweed Heads | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2485, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 40% of residents live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home is so small, with 40% of households containing only two people.
38.3% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tweed Heads splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.8% of the total, which is a little above the New South Wales figure. Couples without children are the most common family type at 43.5%.
16.8% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tweed Heads, the largest group is Couples without children at 44%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14002/tweed-heads/topic/family-households