2.9 → 0.0%
Higher than 89% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ku-ring-gai · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Ku-ring-gai
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Ku-ring-gai than in most other areas, with only 16.9% of households consisting of one person. This trend helps explain why homes here are larger and more likely to be headed by couples with children.
2.9
→ 0.0%
- 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 Ku-ring-gai — higher than 89% of areas.
| Ku-ring-gai | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.9 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. This reflects a trend that has barely changed since 2011, with 30.1% of households consisting of two people.
16.9% ▲ +3.8%
Lower than 92% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ku-ring-gai, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 4 people (23%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 69.4% of families, while one-parent families are well below the New South Wales figure at just 8.9%. This proportion of single-parent homes has risen slightly by 0.8 percentage points since 2011.
8.9% ▲ +10.3%
Lower than 98% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ku-ring-gai, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Ku-ring-gai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/12103/ku-ring-gai/topic/family-households