2.5 ▼ -7.4%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Monaro · State Electorate
Family & Households in Monaro
How families and households are made up across the area.
A little more than a quarter of all homes in Monaro are occupied by a single person. This is a higher proportion than in the state and national figures. While most residents live in family groups, the number of people living alone has risen since 2011.
2.5
▼ -7.4%
- 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 Monaro — lower than 57% of areas.
| Monaro | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. Roughly 26.4% of households consist of one person, a figure that has risen by 5.1 percentage points over the last decade.
26.4% ▲ +23.9%
Higher than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Monaro, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 59.8% of families here. At 11.5%, one-parent families are much lower than in most other areas and sit a little below both the state and national figures.
11.5% ▲ +2.5%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Monaro, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Monaro [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10053/monaro/topic/family-households