2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tumut · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Tumut
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Tumut have seen a change in composition since 2011, though the typical home size has remained steady. The area is now marked by a high number of people living alone and a larger-than-average share of one-parent families. These trends highlight a shift toward smaller, more diverse living arrangements in the town.
2.3
→ 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 Tumut — lower than 57% of areas.
| Tumut | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2720, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31.7% of people in Tumut live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Despite this, the typical home still holds 2.3 people, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and sits a little below the New South Wales average.
31.7% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tumut splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.4% of the local total, a figure that is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. While this is higher than most areas, the proportion of single-parent homes has actually fallen 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
18.4% ▼ -14.9%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tumut, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Tumut [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114033/tumut/topic/family-households