2.8 ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Awaba · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Awaba
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 65.8% of families in Awaba (L), making it a place where family life is very prominent. Households here are generally larger than in most other areas, with the number of people per home rising to 2.8 since 2011.
2.8
▲ +16.7%
- 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 Awaba — higher than 81% of areas.
| Awaba | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2283, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.8 people, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the national figure. This growth in home size is reflected in the 24.6% of people living alone, a figure that has fallen 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
24.6% ▼ -20.1%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Awaba splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 1 person (24%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 9.9% of the total, which is well below both the New South Wales and Australian figures. This is a notable drop from 2011, when that figure stood at 15.5%.
9.9% ▼ -36.3%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Awaba, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Awaba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122010/awaba/topic/family-households