2.0 ▼ -35.5%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newell · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Newell
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Newell, where just 2.0 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a shift toward smaller living arrangements in the area.
2.0
▼ -35.5%
- 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 Newell — lower than 86% of areas.
| Newell | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4873, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households have jumped 19 percentage points since 2011 and now make up 33.6% of the area, which is well above the Queensland figure. This helps explain why the typical home is much smaller than most areas, with 41.6% of households containing only two people.
33.6% ▲ +123.3%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Newell, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 52.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 7.4% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.4% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newell, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 40%.
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 Newell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322093/newell/topic/family-households