2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ballina · State Electorate
Family & Households in Ballina
How families and households are made up across the area.
Very little has changed in the way people live in Ballina since 2011, with household sizes remaining steady. The area is mostly made up of small households, with a typical home holding 2.4 people.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Ballina — lower than 71% of areas.
| Ballina | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A higher than usual 27.6% of people live alone, which is a little above the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person households are the most common, making up 36.6% of the total.
27.6% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ballina, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most common family type at 50.8%. One-parent families make up 15.6% of the total, a figure that is a little above the state average but has fallen 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
15.6% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ballina, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10003/ballina/topic/family-households