2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 57% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
500 or more · Section of State Range
Family & Households in 500 or more
How families and households are made up across the area.
About the same as the national figure for household size, 500 or more sees 2.5 people living in the typical home. While most families here are couples, one-parent households are slightly more common than across Australia.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 0 areas
- 2.0: 1 area
- 2.1: 0 areas
- 2.2: 5 areas
- 2.3: 20 areas
- 2.4: 11 areas
- 2.5: 15 areas
- 2.6: 9 areas
- 2.7: 4 areas
- 2.8: 0 areas
- 2.9: 0 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 0 areas
- 3.2: 0 areas
- 3.3: 0 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
All section of state range areas, 2021. The marker is 500 or more — higher than 57% of areas.
| 500 or more | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than in most similar areas, though the number of people per house has edged down to 2.5 since 2011. About 25.7% of people live alone, a figure that has risen by 3 percentage points over the last decade.
25.7% ▲ +13.2%
Lower than 68% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 500 or more, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of families are couples with children, and 33% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 16% of the total, which is a little above the Australian figure and up 2.1 percentage points from 2011.
16.0% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 51% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 500 or more, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (16%).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in 500 or more [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR321/500-or-more/topic/family-households