2.0 ▼ -25.9%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forster - Tuncurry · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Forster - Tuncurry
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Forster - Tuncurry than in most similar areas. This shift is clear in the data, as the number of single-person households rose by 16 percentage points since 2011. Today, the typical home is much smaller than those found across the state or nation.
2.0
▼ -25.9%
- 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 Forster - Tuncurry — lower than 86% of areas.
| Forster - Tuncurry | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2428, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is largely because 36.9% of residents live alone—a rate far above the New South Wales average of 25%.
36.9% ▲ +75.2%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Forster - Tuncurry splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.8% of the total, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.1%. Couples without children are the most common family type at 45.3%.
17.8% ▲ +57.2%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Forster - Tuncurry, the largest group is Couples without children at 45%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Forster - Tuncurry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112008/forster-tuncurry/topic/family-households