1.9 ▼ -44.1%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Huskisson · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Huskisson
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Huskisson than in the rest of the state, with over 41% of households consisting of just one person. This makes the area a outlier compared to national trends. Small household sizes dominate the landscape, with the typical home housing fewer than two people.
1.9
▼ -44.1%
- 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 Huskisson — lower than 93% of areas.
| Huskisson | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2540 crosses NSW/OT | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Small homes are the norm here, with only 1.9 people per dwelling, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. The number of people living alone has jumped 33 percentage points since 2011, and now 41.4% of homes are single-person households.
41.4% ▲ +422.3%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 45.4%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Huskisson splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up nearly half of all families at 48.9%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.7%, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 14%.
11.7% ▲ +159.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Huskisson, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Huskisson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121052/huskisson/topic/family-households