2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balmain · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Balmain
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define Balmain, which has far fewer people per home than most similar areas. The area is marked by a high number of people living alone and a much lower proportion of single-parent families compared to the rest of the country.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Balmain — lower than 86% of areas.
| Balmain | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2041, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 31.7% of people living alone, the number of single-person homes is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why Balmain has only 2.2 people per home, which is much lower than most areas.
31.7% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Balmain splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 57.2% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 9.3%, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales and Australian averages.
9.3% ▼ -2.2%
Lower than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Balmain, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Balmain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/120021387/balmain/topic/family-households