2.9 ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Collector · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Collector
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Collector than in the rest of the state, which helps explain why homes here are larger than usual. Most households consist of families, with the typical home now holding 2.9 people.
2.9
▲ +16.0%
- 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 Collector — higher than 86% of areas.
| Collector | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2581, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Collector holds 2.9 people, which is a little above the national figure and up from 2.5 in 2011. Only 14.6% of people live alone, a figure far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
14.6% ▼ -60.7%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Collector splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 4 people (27%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 67.6%. Single-parent families account for 12.3% of the total, which is a little below the state and national figures and down from 21.6% in 2011.
12.3% ▼ -42.9%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Collector, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Collector [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122037/collector/topic/family-households