3.3 ▲ +73.7%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Picton - West · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Picton - West
How families and households are made up across the area.
A dramatic shift in living patterns has seen Picton - West (L) move toward much larger households since 2011. The typical home now holds 3.3 people, a figure well above the national average of 2.5. This change is driven by a sharp drop in people living alone and a strong presence of families with children.
3.3
▲ +73.7%
- 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 Picton - West — higher than 90% of areas.
| Picton - West | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 2571, NSW | 3.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much more crowded than in most similar areas, with 3.3 people per dwelling. This is a big jump from the 1.9 people per home seen in 2011, while the share of people living alone has crashed from 38.9% to just 3.6%.
3.6% ▼ -90.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Picton - West, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 4 people (27%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is the norm here, with couples with children making up 73.1% of the total. This helps explain why one-parent families are far less common than in the rest of the state, falling to just 2.3% since 2011.
2.3% ▼ -87.5%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Picton - West, Couples with children is the majority at 73%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Picton - West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122111/picton-west/topic/family-households