2.6 ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yorklea · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yorklea
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Yorklea than in most similar areas. The community is mostly made up of families, with a typical home holding 2.6 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.6
▼ -7.1%
- 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 Yorklea — higher than 57% of areas.
| Yorklea | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 2470, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 14.9% of people here live alone, a figure far below the 25.6% national average. Most homes are small, with 48.8% containing just two people.
14.9% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yorklea, 2 people is the majority at 53%; 1 person is next at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.0% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other families are less common, with couples with children representing 43.6% of the total.
18.0% ▲ +78.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yorklea, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (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 Yorklea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14535/yorklea/topic/family-households