2.0 ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newbridge · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Newbridge
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Newbridge than in most other areas, with 38% of households consisting of just one person. This trend means the town has a small typical household size of only two people, which is well below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -16.7%
- 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 Newbridge — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small households are common here, as 41.8% of homes hold two people and 38% hold only one. This contributes to a typical home size of 2.0 people, which is much lower than in most other areas.
38.0% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Newbridge splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (38%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 45.2%, while couples with children account for 43.5%. One-parent families make up 9.7% of the total, a figure that is well below the national average.
9.7% ▲ +80.6%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Newbridge splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 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 Newbridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21923/newbridge/topic/family-households