2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 3.6
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kalaru · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kalaru
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 59.2% of families in Kalaru (L), making them the most common household type. The area has seen a rise in the number of people living in each home since 2011, and there are now significantly more people living alone than the national figure.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Kalaru — higher than 57% of areas.
| Kalaru | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2550, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home now holds 2.4 people, which is higher than most areas. About 29.1% of households consist of a person living alone, a figure that is well above the 25.6% national average and has risen since 2011.
29.1% ▲ +13.5%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Kalaru, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 7.9% of the local total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%. This proportion has fallen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
7.9% ▼ -39.6%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kalaru, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Kalaru [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121055/kalaru/topic/family-households