2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Urunga · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Urunga
How families and households are made up across the area.
Urunga has a much higher proportion of one-parent families than most similar areas. This trend is mirrored in the housing data, where the number of people living alone has jumped to 34.8%. These shifts have left the town with smaller households than the national average.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Urunga — lower than 71% of areas.
| Urunga | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2455, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Urunga holds 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This decline is partly because people living alone rose to 34.8%, a figure well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
34.8% ▲ +30.7%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Urunga, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 22.3% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% national average. This figure has risen by 9.5 percentage points since 2011, while couples without children remain the most common family type at 41.4%.
22.3% ▲ +74.1%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Urunga, the largest group is Couples without children at 41%, followed by Couples with children (35%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Urunga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115144/urunga/topic/family-households