2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 79% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
2022, NSW · Postcode
Family & Households in 2022, NSW
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of families in postcode 2022 are couples with children. This is a place where small households are common, and the typical home contains just 2.2 people.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 2022, NSW — lower than 79% of areas.
| 2022, NSW | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Waverley | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One in three people live alone, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This explains why the typical home size is much lower than most areas.
32.0% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 74% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →2022, NSW splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 10% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1% and has fallen since 2011.
10.0% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 70% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 2022, NSW, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 2022, NSW [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA2022/2022-nsw/topic/family-households