1.9 ▼ -36.7%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lennox Head - West · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Lennox Head - West
How families and households are made up across the area.
A huge shift in living patterns has occurred in Lennox Head - West (L) since 2011, with the number of people living alone jumping by 28 percentage points. This area now sees nearly half of all homes occupied by just one person, making it much less crowded than the typical Australian suburb.
1.9
▼ -36.7%
- 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 Lennox Head - West — lower than 93% of areas.
| Lennox Head - West | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2478, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 47% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home here has only 1.9 people, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
46.9% ▲ +145.7%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 46.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lennox Head - West, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 5.4% of the area, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia. Most families here are couples, with 51.8% being couples without children and 45.8% being couples with children.
5.4% ▼ -61.6%
Lower than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lennox Head - West, Couples without children is the majority at 50%; Couples with children is next at 45%.
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 Lennox Head - West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122078/lennox-head-west/topic/family-households