2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newlyn · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer single-person households than most similar areas make Newlyn a place where people typically live together. The typical home here has 2.5 people, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Newlyn — higher than 50% of areas.
Average household size.
Only 18.9% of people live alone, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%. The most common household size is two people, making up 41.5% of the area.
2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
18.9% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Newlyn, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (19%) and 4 people (13%).
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up just 3.8% of the population, which is far below the Australian figure of 14.1%. Most families here are couples, with 64.4% having children and 39.4% without.
3.8% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Newlyn, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Newlyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21931/newlyn/topic/family-households