2.4 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Byron Bay · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Byron Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 30% of people live alone in Byron Bay, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This reflects a community where single-person households are common, though typical home sizes remain steady at about 2.4 people.
2.4
→ 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 Byron Bay — higher than 57% of areas.
| Byron Bay | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2481, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The proportion of people living alone rose slightly to 29.2% since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common at 33.6%, while the typical number of people per home has barely changed in a decade.
29.2% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Byron Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families here are couples with children, while 34.9% are couples without. One-parent families make up 14.5% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
14.5% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Byron Bay, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 Byron Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113004/byron-bay/topic/family-households