1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brooms Head · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Brooms Head
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Brooms Head are occupied by just one person. This trend has grown since 2011, leaving the area with a typical household size of only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Brooms Head — lower than 93% of areas.
| Brooms Head | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2463, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households make up 45.8% of the area, a figure far above the Australian average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the number of people per home is among the lowest for similar areas.
45.8% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Brooms Head, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of the families in Brooms Head are couples without children. One-parent families make up 13.7% of the total, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
13.7% ▼ -1.9%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brooms Head, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Brooms Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122027/brooms-head/topic/family-households