2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mosman · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Mosman
How families and households are made up across the area.
Household patterns in Mosman have remained remarkably stable since 2011, with the same proportion of people living alone. The area is defined by a high number of single-person households, which makes up nearly a third of the local population.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Mosman — lower than 71% of areas.
| Mosman | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31.7% of people live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. This contributes to a typical household size of 2.3 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
31.7% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mosman splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (32%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.9%. Only 9.2% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.2% ▲ +1.0%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mosman, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Mosman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15350/mosman/topic/family-households