2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Blue Mountains · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Blue Mountains
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of people live alone in the Blue Mountains compared to the rest of the state. This shift has pushed the typical household size down to 2.3 people, which is lower than the national figure.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Blue Mountains — lower than 57% of areas.
| Blue Mountains | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2783, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.2% of residents live by themselves, a figure that is well above the Australian average and has risen by 5.6 percentage points since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 36.4% of all households.
32.2% ▲ +20.9%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Blue Mountains splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 51.4% of families here. One-parent families account for 14.9% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure, though this has fallen by 6.1 percentage points since 2011.
14.9% ▼ -29.1%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Blue Mountains, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Blue Mountains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112003/blue-mountains/topic/family-households