2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Peak Hill · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Peak Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than four in ten people live alone in Peak Hill, making it an area where single-person households are very common. This shift is part of a wider trend toward smaller living arrangements, with the typical number of people per home dropping to 2.1 since 2011.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Peak Hill — lower than 71% of areas.
| Peak Hill | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2869, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, with 42.1% of households consisting of one person. This high number helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure.
42.1% ▲ +73.8%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Peak Hill, the largest group is 1 person at 43%, followed by 2 people (31%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 38.8% of the local total, a figure far above the New South Wales average. This is a significant increase from 2011, when one-parent families accounted for only 14.3% of the count.
38.8% ▲ +171.1%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Peak Hill splits fairly evenly between One-parent families (38%) and Couples with children (34%), with Couples without children at 27%.
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 Peak Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121094/peak-hill/topic/family-households