2.1 ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Braidwood · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Braidwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Braidwood than in most similar areas. This shift is clear in the data, with the number of single-person households jumping 20 percentage points since 2011. Today, 36.6% of homes are occupied by just one person.
2.1
▼ -27.6%
- 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 Braidwood — lower than 71% of areas.
| Braidwood | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2622, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with just 2.1 people per household. This is a little below the national figure of 2.5 and reflects a downward trend from 2011, when the typical home held 2.9 people.
36.6% ▲ +119.3%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Braidwood splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46.7% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 13.0%, which is a little below the Australian figure of 14.1% and slightly lower than it was in 2011.
13.0% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Braidwood, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (39%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Braidwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115026/braidwood/topic/family-households