2.4 ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tarraganda · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Tarraganda
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 30% of people in Tarraganda now live alone, a figure that has jumped 19 percentage points since 2011. This shift has seen the typical number of people in each home drop from 3.0 to 2.4 over the last decade.
2.4
▼ -20.0%
- 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 Tarraganda — higher than 57% of areas.
| Tarraganda | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2550, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households make up 29.7% of the area, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most common, accounting for 36.9% of all households.
29.7% ▲ +175.7%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tarraganda, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most frequent family type at 51.6%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 10.8% of the area, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14%.
10.8% ▼ -23.9%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tarraganda, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Tarraganda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122129/tarraganda/topic/family-households