2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newlands Arm · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Newlands Arm
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live in each home in Newlands Arm than in most other areas. The community is shaped by a high number of couple-led homes and a very low rate of single-parent families.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Newlands Arm — lower than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes here hold 2.2 people, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia. While 54.6% of households contain two people, the share of people living alone has fallen sharply to 21.6% since 2011.
21.6% ▼ -35.2%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Newlands Arm, 2 people is the majority at 56%; 1 person is next at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here. Only 8.6% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen 7.0 percentage points since 2011.
8.6% ▼ -44.9%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newlands Arm, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with 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 Newlands Arm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221053/newlands-arm/topic/family-households