2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Menindee · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Menindee
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 44% of people in Menindee live alone, creating a community where small households are the norm. This is far above the national figure, contributing to a much lower typical number of people per home than in most other areas.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Menindee — lower than 86% of areas.
| Menindee | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2879, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Menindee has just 2.0 people, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This trend has continued since 2011, and the number of people living alone has risen by 13 percentage points to reach a high of 43.9%.
43.9% ▲ +40.1%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 43.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Menindee, the largest group is 1 person at 47%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 35.1% of the total, a figure far above the national average and one that has risen by 27 percentage points since 2011. Couples without children are the most common family type at 36.4%.
35.1% ▲ +323.3%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Menindee splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (34%), with Couples with children at 28%.
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 Menindee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122086/menindee/topic/family-households