2.5 ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kurrajong · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kurrajong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Kurrajong compared to the rest of Australia. The area is mostly made up of family households, with a typical home holding 2.5 people. This is about the same as the national figure, though the number of people per home has edged down since 2011.
2.5
▼ -7.4%
- 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 Kurrajong — higher than 64% of areas.
| Kurrajong | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2758, NSW | 3.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Two-person homes are the most common here at 40.1%. While 23.3% of people live alone, which is lower than most areas, this figure has risen by 3.7 percentage points over the last decade.
23.3% ▲ +19.2%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Kurrajong, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 56.4%. Only 9.0% are one-parent families, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
9.0% ▼ -26.7%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kurrajong, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Kurrajong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115093/kurrajong/topic/family-households