2.4 —
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yass · Urban Centre
How families and households are made up across the area.
Higher-than-usual household sizes mark Yass as a place where more people live together compared to most similar areas. While typical homes hold 2.4 people, there is a notable mix of larger family groups and a significant number of residents living on their own.
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Yass — higher than 57% of areas.
| Yass | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2582, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
About 28.9% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. However, homes with two people are the most common, making up 33.6% of all households.
2.4 —
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
28.9% —
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Yass splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 15%.
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of all families here are couples with children, at 56.4%. One-parent families make up 15.8% of the total, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
15.8% —
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Yass, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Yass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114037/yass/topic/family-households