2.3 ▼ -25.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cobar · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Cobar
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of all households in Cobar are now occupied by people living alone. This shift has seen the typical home size shrink since 2011, and the town now has a much higher proportion of single-person homes than the rest of the state.
2.3
▼ -25.8%
- 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 Cobar — lower than 57% of areas.
| Cobar | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2835, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.4% of people live alone, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 21 points since 2011. Consequently, the typical home in Cobar holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
34.4% ▲ +147.4%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cobar splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.0% of the community, which is well above the state average and significantly higher than it was in 2011. More than half of all families here are couples with children.
17.0% ▲ +128.0%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cobar, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Cobar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115039/cobar/topic/family-households