2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Broken Hill · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Broken Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Broken Hill than in most similar areas. This trend is reflected in the small typical household size, with 37.2% of homes consisting of just one person. Single-person households have grown since 2011, contributing to a landscape where homes are smaller than the state and national figures.
2.2
→ 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 Broken Hill — lower than 64% of areas.
| Broken Hill | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2880, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Broken Hill holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is largely because 37.2% of residents live alone—a figure that is far above the Australian average of 25.6% and has risen since 2011.
37.2% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 37.2%
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 23.2% of the local total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children remain the most common family type at 43.6%.
23.2% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 23.2%
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/ucl/UCL113003/broken-hill/topic/family-households