2.5 ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Raymond Terrace · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Raymond Terrace
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a quarter of families in Raymond Terrace are led by a single parent, making it a community where one-parent homes are far more common than in the rest of the state. While household sizes have grown since 2011, the area maintains a diverse mix of family types and single-person homes.
2.5
▲ +13.6%
- 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 Raymond Terrace — higher than 64% of areas.
| Raymond Terrace | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2324, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Raymond Terrace holds 2.5 people, a figure that has risen from 2.2 in 2011. While 28.7% of people live alone—which is well above the national figure of 25.6%—this is a drop of 6.3 percentage points since the last census.
28.7% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Raymond Terrace splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 25.8% of the local total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This represents a rise of 5.7 percentage points since 2011, alongside the 48.8% of families who are couples with children.
25.8% ▲ +28.4%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Raymond Terrace, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by One-parent families (26%) and Couples without children (24%).
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 Raymond Terrace [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113013/raymond-terrace/topic/family-households