2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hawks Nest · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Hawks Nest
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define Hawks Nest, where the typical home holds only 2.0 people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5 and makes the area stand out compared to most similar places.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Hawks Nest — lower than 86% of areas.
| Hawks Nest | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2324, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.8% of people live alone, a figure that has risen since 2011 and sits well above the New South Wales average of 25%. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller than most, with nearly half of all households containing just two people.
34.8% ▲ +14.1%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Hawks Nest, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 54.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 13.3%, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 14.1%.
13.3% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hawks Nest, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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 Hawks Nest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115078/hawks-nest/topic/family-households