2.2 ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newcastle · State Electorate
Family & Households in Newcastle
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living together in Newcastle than in 2011, with the typical home now holding just 2.2 people. This shift is driven by a sharp rise in the number of single-person households. The area now has a much higher proportion of people living alone compared to both the state and the national average.
2.2
▼ -12.0%
- 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 Newcastle — lower than 90% of areas.
| Newcastle | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One third of residents now live alone, a figure that rose 6.3 percentage points since 2011 and is well above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical household size is much lower than most areas, at 2.2 people.
33.2% ▲ +23.2%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Newcastle splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families in Newcastle are couples with children, while 33.7% are couples without. One-parent families make up 14% of the total, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
14.0% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newcastle, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; 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 Newcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10058/newcastle/topic/family-households