2.0 ▼ -31.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Holbrook · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Holbrook
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Holbrook than in other parts of the country, with 40.1% of households being single-person homes. This shift has seen the typical number of people per home drop from 2.9 in 2011 to just 2.0 today. It is a place where small households are now the norm.
2.0
▼ -31.0%
- 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 Holbrook — lower than 86% of areas.
| Holbrook | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2644, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes make up 40.1% of all households, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of solo dwellers helps explain why Holbrook's average of 2.0 people per home is well below the New South Wales average of 2.6.
40.1% ▲ +110.6%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Holbrook splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.4% of the area, a figure that is well above the 14.1% national average. Most families here are couples, with 40.8% having no children and 40.1% having children.
18.4% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Holbrook splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (41%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families at 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 Holbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115082/holbrook/topic/family-households