2.3 ▲ +9.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nyah West · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Nyah West
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than double the number of one-parent families now live in Nyah West compared to 2011. While the typical household is smaller than the national figure, the area has seen a rise in the number of people living in each home over the last decade.
2.3
▲ +9.5%
- 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 Nyah West — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 34.8% of people here live alone, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. This is a drop from 2011, though the typical home now holds 2.3 people, slightly below the national figure of 2.5.
34.8% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.5%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Nyah West splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.2% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 12.5% of families were headed by a single parent.
24.2% ▲ +93.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nyah West, the largest group is Couples with children at 42%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (24%).
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 Nyah West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221056/nyah-west/topic/family-households