2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Molong · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Molong
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Molong consist of just one person, which is well above the national figure. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home is smaller than those in most other areas, with an average of 2.3 people per dwelling.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 Molong — lower than 57% of areas.
| Molong | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2866, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Roughly 33.6% of people here live alone, a rate well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This has remained steady since 2011, while the typical home size stays a little below the national average.
33.6% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Molong splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families are couples with children, though one-parent families make up 16.7% of the total. This proportion of single-parent homes is higher than most areas, even though the figure fell by 6.6 percentage points since 2011.
16.7% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Molong, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without 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 Molong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115105/molong/topic/family-households