2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lawrence · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Lawrence
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all households in Lawrence consist of just two people. This small community has a varied mix of living arrangements, though the typical home size has shrunk slightly over the last decade.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Lawrence — lower than 57% of areas.
| Lawrence | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2460, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Lawrence has 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. While 22.4% of people live alone—well below the Australian average—this figure has risen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011.
22.4% ▲ +15.9%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 38.4%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lawrence, 2 people is the majority at 50%; 1 person is next at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 46.1%. One-parent families account for 13.9% of the total, a figure that has risen by 6.8 percentage points since 2011 to reach about the same level as the rest of the country.
13.9% ▲ +94.3%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lawrence, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (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 Lawrence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121065/lawrence/topic/family-households