1.7 ▼ -45.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tomago · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Tomago
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Tomago are occupied by people living alone. This makes the area stand out for its small household sizes, with a typical home holding just 1.7 people. These figures represent a sharp shift from a decade ago, when the average home was much larger.
1.7
▼ -45.2%
- 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 Tomago — lower than 99% of areas.
| Tomago | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 2322, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 58.3% of people here live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This explains why the typical home has only 1.7 people, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
58.3% ▲ +287.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 58.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tomago, 1 person is the majority at 58%; 2 people is next at 26%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 29.8% of the local total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 6.8% of families were headed by a single parent.
29.8% ▲ +339.1%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tomago, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (32%) and Couples with children (21%).
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 Tomago [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122133/tomago/topic/family-households