2.4 —
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Orange · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Orange
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 30% of people in Orange live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This creates a diverse mix of living arrangements in the city, where single-person homes are common alongside larger family households. The area generally follows state patterns for household size, though it has a notably high share of one-parent families.
2.4
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- 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 Orange — higher than 57% of areas.
| Orange | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2800, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Orange holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 2.6. While 32.5% of homes house two people, the number of people living alone is well above the national average at 29.9%.
29.9% —
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Orange splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of families here are couples with children, but one-parent families make up 17.3% of the total. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and higher than most similar areas.
17.3% —
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Orange, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Orange [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112016/orange/topic/family-households