2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Macarthur · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Macarthur
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Macarthur, where the typical home holds just two people. This is well below the national figure, driven largely by a high number of residents living alone.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Macarthur — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38.1% of people here live by themselves, which is far above the national figure and has risen by 8.5 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home is much smaller than in most areas, holding only 2.0 people.
38.1% ▲ +28.7%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Macarthur splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.5% of the area, a figure that is well above the state average and has risen by 14 points since 2011. Most other families are couples, with 45.2% having no children and 37.0% having children.
18.5% ▲ +290.6%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Macarthur, the largest group is Couples without children at 45%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Macarthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222047/macarthur/topic/family-households