2.0 ▼ -31.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Oaklands · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Oaklands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Oaklands than in the rest of the state. This trend has grown quickly, with the typical home now holding just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -31.0%
- 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 Oaklands — lower than 86% of areas.
| Oaklands | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2646, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 40.2% of residents live by themselves, a figure that rose 25 points since 2011 and is far above the New South Wales average. This helps explain why the number of people per home is much lower than in most other areas.
40.2% ▲ +159.9%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Oaklands splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 47.5%, while one-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, making up only 10.8% of the total.
10.8% ▼ -36.2%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Oaklands splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 Oaklands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122103/oaklands/topic/family-households