2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nowa Nowa · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Nowa Nowa
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few changes have been seen in the local home life of Nowa Nowa since 2011, though it remains a place where small households are common. Over a third of all homes are occupied by just one or two people, with 31.6% of residents living alone.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Nowa Nowa — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People per home in Nowa Nowa is 2.1, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 31.6% of people live alone, a rate well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
31.6% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Nowa Nowa splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 28%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.7% of families here. One-parent families account for 13.0% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the Victorian average of 13.3%.
13.0% ▲ +58.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nowa Nowa, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Nowa Nowa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21975/nowa-nowa/topic/family-households