2.1 ▼ -22.2%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coolah · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Coolah
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp rise in people living alone has changed the face of Coolah (L) since 2011. This shift has pushed the typical number of people per home down to 2.1, which is lower than most similar areas. It is now a place where single-person households are far more common than across the rest of the state.
2.1
▼ -22.2%
- 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 Coolah — lower than 71% of areas.
| Coolah | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2843, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 38% of residents now live alone, a figure that rose 19 percentage points since 2011 and is far above the national rate of 25.6%. Consequently, two-person homes are the most common at 40.3%, while only 9.5% of households contain four people.
37.8% ▲ +101.3%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 37.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Coolah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 4 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 42.9% of families, while couples without children account for 41.2%. One-parent families make up 13.5% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure but fell 6.7 percentage points since 2011.
13.5% ▼ -33.0%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Coolah splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 Coolah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121022/coolah/topic/family-households