1.9 ▼ -24.0%
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sydney · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Sydney
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Sydney, where almost 40% of people live on their own. This is a stark contrast to the rest of the state, with very few people sharing their homes compared to national figures.
1.9
▼ -24.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 2 areas
- 2.0: 1 area
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 3 areas
- 2.3: 23 areas
- 2.4: 27 areas
- 2.5: 26 areas
- 2.6: 22 areas
- 2.7: 16 areas
- 2.8: 8 areas
- 2.9: 9 areas
- 3.0: 5 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 2 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All federal electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Sydney — lower than 99% of areas.
| Sydney | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 39.8% of households being single-person homes, a figure that rose 14 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home in Sydney holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
39.8% ▲ +54.4%
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sydney splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families at 53.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 9.5% of the total, which is well below both the state and national figures.
9.5% ▼ -43.8%
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sydney, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED142/sydney/topic/family-households