2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Harden - Murrumburrah · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Harden - Murrumburrah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the largest family group in Harden - Murrumburrah, accounting for 43.7% of families. The area is seeing a shift toward smaller living arrangements, with a high number of people now living on their own. This trend has seen the typical number of people per home fall to 2.1.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Harden - Murrumburrah — lower than 71% of areas.
| Harden - Murrumburrah | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2587, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, with 36.6% of households being single-person homes. This is a rise of 5.5 points since 2011 and helps explain why the typical home now holds just 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure.
36.6% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Harden - Murrumburrah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.3% of the total, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average of 14.0%. This proportion has risen by 1.6 points since 2011, while couples without children represent another 36.1% of families.
18.3% ▲ +9.5%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Harden - Murrumburrah, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Harden - Murrumburrah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115076/harden-murrumburrah/topic/family-households