2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dorrigo · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Dorrigo
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than four in ten people live alone in Dorrigo, making it a place with many small households. This shift is part of a growing trend, as the typical home now holds just two people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Dorrigo — lower than 86% of areas.
| Dorrigo | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2453, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high 40.5% of residents live by themselves, a figure that has risen 8.8 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home here is much smaller than in most other areas.
40.5% ▲ +27.9%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dorrigo splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 42.5%. One-parent families account for 16.4% of the total, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
16.4% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Dorrigo splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (42%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 16%.
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 Dorrigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115053/dorrigo/topic/family-households