2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cooma · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Cooma
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Cooma than in most similar areas, with 35.2% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a lower typical number of people per household than the rest of the state.
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 Cooma — lower than 64% of areas.
| Cooma | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2630, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Cooma has 2.2 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This is driven by a high proportion of people living alone, a figure that has risen to 35.2% since 2011.
35.2% ▲ +6.1%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cooma splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.0% of the local total, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%. Almost half of all families here are couples with children, while 32.3% are couples without children.
17.0% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cooma, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114004/cooma/topic/family-households