2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kangaroo Valley · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kangaroo Valley
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Kangaroo Valley than in 2011, with 36.5% of households now consisting of just one person. This shift has contributed to the area having fewer people per home than the state and national figures. Most households are small, typically housing only one or two people.
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 Kangaroo Valley — lower than 64% of areas.
| Kangaroo Valley | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2577, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A little below the national figure of 2.5, the typical home here has 2.2 people. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which are far more common here than across New South Wales.
36.5% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kangaroo Valley splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families, while one-parent families account for 12.3%. This last figure is a little below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
12.3% ▼ -30.6%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kangaroo Valley, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Kangaroo Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122069/kangaroo-valley/topic/family-households