2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bega · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Bega
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of all homes in Bega are occupied by people living alone. This makes the area's households smaller than the national figure, with a typical home housing just 2.2 people.
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 Bega — lower than 64% of areas.
| Bega | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2550, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.3% of people here live alone, which is well above the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why the typical household size of 2.2 people is a little below the Australian average of 2.5.
34.3% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bega splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parents make up 24.5% of families, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.1% and has risen by 8.3 points since 2011.
24.5% ▲ +51.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bega, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (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 Bega [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115013/bega/topic/family-households