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Oakdale - Nattai - National Park

Family blending

In 2021, Oakdale - Nattai - National Park had 6.3% of couple families with children in step families and 3.5% in blended families.

Information on blended and intact families can be an indicator of the level of family breakup and repartnering within the area, and a potential indicator of socio-economic disadvantage. Family blending only applies to couple families with children. For information more broadly about household and family types, including single-parent families, please see Household Type, Households with Children, and Households without Children.

Q:

Derived from the Census question:

'What is the person's relationship (to each other person in the household)?'

Family blending
Oakdale - Nattai - National Park - Total couples with children (Enumerated)20212016Change
Family blending by typeNumber%The Oaks - Belimbla Park - Glenmore %Number%The Oaks - Belimbla Park - Glenmore %2016 to 2021
Intact Family 25389.184.524687.287.5+7
Step family 186.39.1165.76.9+2
Blended family 103.55.8165.75.6-6
Other couple family 31.10.541.4---1
Total couples with children284100.0100.0282100.0100.0+2
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions).
Please refer to specific data notes for more information

Dominant groups

Analysis of the family blending in Oakdale - Nattai - National Park in 2021 compared to The Oaks - Belimbla Park - Glenmore shows that there was a lower proportion of step families as well as a lower proportion of blended families. Overall, 6.3% of total couple families with children were step families, and 3.5% were blended families, compared with 9.1% and 5.8% respectively for The Oaks - Belimbla Park - Glenmore.

There were a higher proportion of other families and a higher proportion of couples without children. Overall, the proportion of other families was 1.1% compared to 0.5% in The Oaks - Belimbla Park - Glenmore while the proportion of intact families was 89.1% compared to 84.5% in The Oaks - Belimbla Park - Glenmore.

Emerging groups

The number of couple families with children in Oakdale - Nattai - National Park increased by 2 between 2016 and 2021.

There were no major differences in Oakdale - Nattai - National Park between 2016 and 2021.

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