1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sydney Inner City · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Sydney Inner City
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Sydney Inner City than in 2011, with 40.6% of households now consisting of just one person. This trend has led to the area having some of the smallest households in the country, with a typical home holding fewer than two people.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 1.0: 1 area
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 4 areas
- 2.0: 3 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 17 areas
- 2.3: 60 areas
- 2.4: 55 areas
- 2.5: 57 areas
- 2.6: 43 areas
- 2.7: 19 areas
- 2.8: 27 areas
- 2.9: 16 areas
- 3.0: 13 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 1 area
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
All sub-region (sa3) areas, 2021. The marker is Sydney Inner City — lower than 99% of areas.
| Sydney Inner City | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because people living alone make up 40.6% of households, a figure far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
40.6% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 39.5%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sydney Inner City 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 group at 53.5%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.5% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
9.5% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 94% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sydney Inner City, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Sydney Inner City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11703/sydney-inner-city/topic/family-households