2.1 ▲ +10.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nyah · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Nyah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Nyah than in most similar areas. While the typical home holds 2.1 people, this is a little below the Victorian and Australian figures of 2.5. This trend toward smaller households is shaped by a high number of single-person homes.
2.1
▲ +10.5%
- 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 — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 37.5% of people live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. While this is still much higher than most areas, the number of sole occupants has fallen 18 points since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 43.8% of households.
37.5% ▼ -32.5%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 55.6%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Nyah, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the largest group at 44.6%, followed by couples with children at 40.9%. One-parent families make up 14.0% of the total, which is about the same as the Victorian and Australian figures.
14.0% ▼ -16.1%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Nyah splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222066/nyah/topic/family-households