2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Narooma · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Narooma
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 38% of people in Narooma live alone, which is far above the national figure. This high number of single-person households means the typical home in the area is much smaller than across the state.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Narooma — lower than 86% of areas.
| Narooma | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2546, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Narooma are generally smaller, with only 2.0 people per home compared to the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This is partly because the share of people living alone has risen to 38.1% since 2011.
38.1% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Narooma splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About 47.4% of families are couples without children, while 35.4% are couples with children. One-parent families make up 16.7% of the total, a figure that is a little above the national average but has fallen since 2011.
16.7% ▼ -24.1%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Narooma, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (35%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Narooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115109/narooma/topic/family-households