2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dangar Island · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Dangar Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up over half of the families in Dangar Island, though the area's overall household patterns are shifting. While families are common, a growing number of people now live alone, contributing to a typical home size that is smaller than the national figure.
2.2
▼ -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 Dangar Island — lower than 64% of areas.
| Dangar Island | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2083, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35.3% of residents live alone, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 8.1 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home in Dangar Island holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5.
35.3% ▲ +29.8%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dangar Island splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 4.8% of the total, which is well below the state and national figures. This proportion has fallen 15 points since 2011, leaving couples—both with and without children—as the dominant family types.
4.8% ▼ -75.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dangar Island, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 43%.
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 Dangar Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122047/dangar-island/topic/family-households