2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Berry · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Berry
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small home sizes and a high number of couple-only households define daily life in Berry. The area has a low typical household size of 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure. This reflects a community where nearly half of all homes are shared by just two people.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Berry — lower than 64% of areas.
| Berry | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2535, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 28.5% of residents live alone, a figure well above the New South Wales average. Most homes are small, with 45.4% containing two people and 28.5% containing just one.
28.5% ▲ +1.9%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Berry, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 4 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families here, with 45.6% being couples without children and 45.3% being those with children. Only 8.6% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the national figure.
8.6% ▼ -2.4%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Berry splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Berry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115017/berry/topic/family-households