2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Oxley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Oxley
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Oxley, where 58.6% of families are couples with children. This is a family-focused community with very few people living alone compared to the rest of the state.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 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 Oxley — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.6 people, which is about the same as the national figure. Only 18.7% of residents live alone, a rate well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
18.7% ▼ -1.0%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Oxley, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up just 6.0% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1% and much lower than most similar areas.
6.0% ▼ -38.9%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Oxley, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; 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 Oxley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22022/oxley/topic/family-households