1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sydney · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Sydney
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 41% of households in Sydney consist of just one person, which is far above the national figure. This makes the city one of the most common places for solo living in the region, with small household sizes being a defining feature of the area.
1.9
→ 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 Sydney — lower than 99% of areas.
| Sydney | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Sydney has just 1.9 people, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This low number is driven by the fact that 41.1% of people live alone, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011.
41.1% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 39.9%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sydney splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 53.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.5% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
9.5% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 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 54%; 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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Cite this page
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/lga/LGA17200/sydney/topic/family-households