2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Newfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 44% of people in Newfield now live alone, a huge jump in solo living compared to the state average. This shift has made Newfield a place where single-person households are far more common than in most similar areas.
2.4
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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 Newfield — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes make up 44.4% of the area, which is far above the 25.6% national figure. Most other homes house two or three people, keeping the typical household size at 2.4 people, about the same as the rest of Australia.
44.4% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Newfield, the largest group is 1 person at 40%, followed by 2 people (30%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 61.7% of families here. In contrast, there are no one-parent families in the area, a figure that is far below the 14.1% national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newfield, Couples with children is the majority at 71%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Newfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21926/newfield/topic/family-households