2.0 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Costerfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Costerfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-three point six per cent of people live alone in Costerfield, a figure far above the national average. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a much smaller typical household size than most other places. It is a community where nearly half of all homes house only one person.
2.0
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- 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 Costerfield — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 43.6% of people living alone, the typical home in Costerfield has 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian and Australian figures of 2.5. Most households consist of either one person or a couple.
43.6% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 51.7%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Costerfield, the largest group is 1 person at 50%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 57.4% of families here. In contrast, one-parent families account for 10.6%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.6% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Costerfield, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Costerfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20652/costerfield/topic/family-households