2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Grafton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Grafton
How families and households are made up across the area.
More one-parent families have lived in Grafton since 2011, contributing to a shift in how the community is structured. While the typical household size has edged up slightly to 2.3 people, the area is now marked by a very high proportion of people living on their own.
2.3
▲ +4.5%
- 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 Grafton — lower than 57% of areas.
| Grafton | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2460, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.2% of people in Grafton live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes means the typical household size is a little below the New South Wales average.
34.2% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Grafton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.2% of the local total, a figure that is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This proportion has risen by 4.1 percentage points since 2011.
25.2% ▲ +19.7%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Grafton, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (25%).
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 Grafton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113005/grafton/topic/family-households