2.8 ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yass River · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yass River
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Yass River compared to the state and national figures. This area is dominated by larger households, with the typical home holding 2.8 people, which is much higher than most similar areas.
2.8
▲ +7.7%
- 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 Yass River — higher than 76% of areas.
| Yass River | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2582, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 13.3% of people live alone, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 25%. This helps explain why home sizes are larger here, with 38.5% of households containing two people and 18.2% containing four.
13.3% ▼ -7.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yass River, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up 59.5% of the area. One-parent families account for 7.4% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.4% ▲ +37.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yass River, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Yass River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14512/yass-river/topic/family-households