2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Upper Main Arm · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Upper Main Arm
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Upper Main Arm are occupied by just one person. This creates a unique residential landscape where small households are the norm, differing sharply from the typical family-centric patterns seen across the state.
2.1
→ 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 Upper Main Arm — lower than 81% of areas.
| Upper Main Arm | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2482, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 49% of households consisting of a single person. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, which helps explain why the typical home has only 2.1 people, much lower than most other areas.
49.0% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.0%
- 2016: 44.9%
- 2021: 49.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Upper Main Arm, the largest group is 1 person at 49%, followed by 2 people (20%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.3% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Most families in the area are couples with children, who account for 59.7% of the total.
17.3% ▼ -33.8%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Upper Main Arm, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; One-parent families is next at 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 Upper Main Arm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14053/upper-main-arm/topic/family-households