2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dareton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Dareton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Dareton than in most similar areas, with 40% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home here is smaller than the national figure, though the number of people per home has edged up slightly since 2011.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 Dareton — lower than 64% of areas.
| Dareton | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2717, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Dareton holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. While 40% of homes are occupied by one person—far above the national figure of 25.6%—this has actually fallen from 44.7% in 2011.
40.0% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Dareton, the largest group is 1 person at 39%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 30.9% of the local total, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.1%. This has seen a sharp rise of 15 percentage points since 2011, placing Dareton among the highest for this family type.
30.9% ▲ +90.6%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Dareton splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (34%) and Couples with children (32%), with One-parent families at 31%.
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 Dareton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122048/dareton/topic/family-households