2.4 ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Captains Flat · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Captains Flat
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Captains Flat are couples with children. This small community has a higher proportion of one-parent families than most similar areas, and about 31% of all households consist of just one person.
2.4
▲ +4.3%
- 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 Captains Flat — higher than 57% of areas.
| Captains Flat | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2623, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home has 2.4 people, which is higher than most areas and has edged up since 2011. A significant 31.2% of residents live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%.
31.2% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 31.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Captains Flat splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.7% of the total, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%. This proportion has risen by 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
18.7% ▲ +22.0%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Captains Flat, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; 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 Captains Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122032/captains-flat/topic/family-households