2.5 ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Murray · State Electorate
Family & Households in Murray
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Murray than in most similar areas. This trend has shifted quickly, with the share of single-person households jumping 12 percentage points since 2011. While the area has a mix of family types, it is now more common for residents to live by themselves than it was a decade ago.
2.5
▼ -16.7%
- 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 Murray — lower than 57% of areas.
| Murray | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 27.9% of people live alone, which is a little above the national figure of 25.6%. The typical home now has 2.5 people, a drop from 3.0 people per home in 2011.
27.9% ▲ +76.0%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 27.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Murray, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.2% of families, while couples without children account for 31.5%. One-parent families represent 13.2% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the New South Wales average.
13.2% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Murray, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Murray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10056/murray/topic/family-households