2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 94% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Broken Hill · Urban Area
Family & Households in Broken Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Broken Hill than a decade ago, with 37.1% of households now consisting of just one person. This trend contributes to the area having smaller homes on average, with just 2.2 people per dwelling.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 2.0: 2 areas
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 11 areas
- 2.3: 27 areas
- 2.4: 24 areas
- 2.5: 27 areas
- 2.6: 9 areas
- 2.7: 5 areas
- 2.8: 3 areas
- 2.9: 0 areas
- 3.0: 1 area
- 3.1: 0 areas
- 3.2: 0 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All urban area areas, 2021. The marker is Broken Hill — lower than 94% of areas.
| Broken Hill | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2880, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
At 37.1%, the share of people living alone is far above the national figure of 25.6% and among the highest for similar areas. This helps explain why the typical home here holds only 2.2 people, which is a little below the New South Wales average of 2.6.
37.1% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Broken Hill splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.1% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
23.1% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 97% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Broken Hill, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (23%).
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1007/broken-hill/topic/family-households