2.8 ▲ +33.3%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greta · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Greta
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a roof in Greta than in most similar areas, with an average of 2.8 people per home. This trend has grown since 2011, creating a community where larger households are common and few people live alone.
2.8
▲ +33.3%
- 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 Greta — higher than 81% of areas.
| Greta | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2334, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 21.8% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6% and down 11 points since 2011. This shift toward larger homes is seen in the fact that 27.3% of households now contain four or more people.
21.8% ▼ -33.4%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Greta, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 4 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group here at 63.3%. One-parent families account for 14.1% of the total, a figure that has risen since 2011 and sits right around the national average.
14.1% ▲ +23.7%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greta, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Greta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115070/greta/topic/family-households