1.8 ▲ +5.9%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
White Cliffs · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in White Cliffs
How families and households are made up across the area.
A striking 60.8% of homes in White Cliffs are occupied by just one person. This makes the area feel very different from the rest of the state, with small households being the norm and few large family groups living together.
1.8
▲ +5.9%
- 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 White Cliffs — lower than 91% of areas.
| White Cliffs | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2836, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than elsewhere, with 60.8% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
60.8% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.0%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 60.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In White Cliffs, 1 person is the majority at 68%; 2 people is next at 25%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.8% of families, while those without children account for 42.9%. One-parent families are less common at 11%, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 14%.
11.0% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In White Cliffs, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (40%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 White Cliffs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14291/white-cliffs/topic/family-households