2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Parkes · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Parkes
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone and in single-parent homes in Parkes than in 2011. This shift is seen in the 32.6% of households now run by a single person and a significant rise in one-parent families. These changes contrast with the fact that the typical home now holds slightly more people than it did ten years ago.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Parkes — higher than 57% of areas.
| Parkes | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2870, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Parkes holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure. However, 32.6% of households are people living alone, a figure that is well above the Australian average and has risen since 2011.
32.6% ▲ +9.5%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Parkes splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.4% of the local total, which is much higher than in most other areas. This figure is well above the New South Wales average and has grown by 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
20.4% ▲ +43.8%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Parkes, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114024/parkes/topic/family-households