3.3 ▲ +57.1%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mulgoa · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mulgoa
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp rise in household size has transformed Mulgoa (L) since 2011. The area is now defined by much larger homes, with the typical household growing from 2.1 to 3.3 people over the last decade. This shift is most visible in the low number of people living alone, which is far below the national figure.
3.3
▲ +57.1%
- 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 Mulgoa — higher than 90% of areas.
| Mulgoa | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 2745, NSW | 3.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes in Mulgoa (L) are well above the national figure for size, housing 3.3 people. Only 12.1% of households consist of a single person, a figure that has fallen by 26 percentage points since 2011 and is now among the lowest for similar areas.
12.1% ▼ -68.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mulgoa splits fairly evenly between 2 people (23%) and 4 people (22%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families here at 76.6%. One-parent families are much less common than in the rest of Australia, accounting for just 6.3% of the total, which is a drop of 13 percentage points since 2011.
6.3% ▼ -66.6%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mulgoa, Couples with children is the majority at 77%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
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 Mulgoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121084/mulgoa/topic/family-households