2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coonamble · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Coonamble
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of one-parent families live in Coonamble than in most other similar areas. This trend has grown significantly over the last decade, while a rising number of residents now live on their own. These shifts mean that the typical home here has slightly fewer people than the state or national figures.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Coonamble — lower than 57% of areas.
| Coonamble | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2829, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Roughly 35% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure and has risen by 9 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home has 2.3 people, a little below the New South Wales average of 2.6.
34.9% ▲ +34.7%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Coonamble splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (32%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 34.6% of the total, a figure far above the national average that has climbed by 20 points since 2011. This group is now nearly as common as couples with children, who make up 37.8% of families.
34.6% ▲ +135.3%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Coonamble splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (35%), with Couples without children at 26%.
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 Coonamble [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115044/coonamble/topic/family-households