1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kandos · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kandos
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Kandos are now occupied by just one person, a sharp increase since 2011. This shift has left the area with a very small typical household size compared to the rest of the country.
1.8
▼ -18.2%
- 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 Kandos — lower than 99% of areas.
| Kandos | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2848, NSW | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Over half of the population (51.1%) now live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This trend has pushed the typical number of people per home down to 1.8, well below the New South Wales average of 2.6.
51.1% ▲ +35.3%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 51.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Kandos, 1 person is the majority at 51%; 2 people is next at 33%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 27.8% of the total, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.1% and has risen by 8 points since 2011. Couples without children are the most common family type at 37.1%.
27.8% ▲ +40.2%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Kandos splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (37%) and Couples with children (35%), with One-parent families at 27%.
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 Kandos [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115090/kandos/topic/family-households