Warren · Suburb / Locality

Family & Households in Warren

How families and households are made up across the area.

Over a third of households in Warren consist of just one person, a figure well above the national average. This high number of single-person homes contributes to a smaller typical household size than is seen across most of Australia.

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📍 Warren, Suburb / Locality

Where Warren sits — Average household size

2.2 ▼ -4.3%
  • 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 Warren — lower than 76% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Warren2.2
2824, NSW 2.3
New South Wales 2.6
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

People living alone make up 34.3% of households, which is much higher than most areas and well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This helps explain why the typical home in Warren holds only 2.2 people, a little below the national figure of 2.5.

2.2 ▼ -4.3%

Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.3
  • 2016: 2.3
  • 2021: 2.2

Average number of people usually resident per household.

34.3% ▲ +7.1%

Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 32.0%
  • 2016: 32.8%
  • 2021: 34.3%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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Warren splits fairly evenly between 2 people (39%) and 1 person (34%), with 4 people at 9%.

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

One-parent families represent 17.3% of the total, which is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Most other families are couples with children (44%) or couples without children (37.2%).

17.3% ▼ -0.4%

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.3%
  • 2016: 21.5%
  • 2021: 17.3%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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In Warren, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (37%) 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 Warren [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14189/warren/topic/family-households