2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Batemans Bay · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Batemans Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Batemans Bay compared to the rest of the state. This trend is reflected in the typical home, which holds just 2.1 people, a figure that is a little below the national average and has barely changed in a decade.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Batemans Bay — lower than 71% of areas.
| Batemans Bay | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2536, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35% of residents live by themselves, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Consequently, two-person homes are the most common at 39.5%, while those with three or more people are less frequent.
35.0% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Batemans Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.5% of the total, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average of 14%. Most other families are couples, with 41.2% being without children and 37.3% having children.
20.5% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Batemans Bay splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (41%) and Couples with children (37%), with One-parent families at 20%.
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 Batemans Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113002/batemans-bay/topic/family-households