1.7 ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
2010, NSW · Postcode
Family & Households in 2010, NSW
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in postcode 2010 are occupied by just one person. This makes the area much more likely to be made up of single-person households than almost anywhere else in the country. It is a place where small living arrangements are the norm.
1.7
▼ -5.6%
- 1.0: 3 areas
- 1.1: 1 area
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 1 area
- 1.4: 1 area
- 1.5: 4 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 16 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 61 areas
- 2.0: 101 areas
- 2.1: 182 areas
- 2.2: 257 areas
- 2.3: 365 areas
- 2.4: 338 areas
- 2.5: 338 areas
- 2.6: 233 areas
- 2.7: 223 areas
- 2.8: 157 areas
- 2.9: 127 areas
- 3.0: 75 areas
- 3.1: 49 areas
- 3.2: 40 areas
- 3.3: 13 areas
- 3.4: 10 areas
- 3.5: 6 areas
- 3.6: 3 areas
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 0 areas
- 4.2: 1 area
All postcode areas, 2021. The marker is 2010, NSW — lower than 99% of areas.
| 2010, NSW | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| Sydney | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 49% of people here live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in postcode 2010 has only 1.7 people, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
48.8% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 44.9%
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 2010, NSW, the largest group is 1 person at 49%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples without children, making up 63.3% of the group. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 7.6%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
7.6% ▲ +11.5%
Lower than 87% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 2010, NSW, Couples without children is the majority at 63%; Couples with children is next at 27%.
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 2010, NSW [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA2010/2010-nsw/topic/family-households