3.3 ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alfords Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Alfords Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
A typical home in Alfords Point holds 3.3 people, which is well above the national figure. This makes it one of the areas with the largest households in the region, where very few people live by themselves.
3.3
▼ -8.3%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Alfords Point — higher than 91% of areas.
| Alfords Point | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 2234, NSW | 3.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 7.4% of residents live alone, a figure far below the New South Wales average. Large households are common here, with 13.3% of homes holding five people and 25.9% holding four.
7.4% ▲ +96.0%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Alfords Point splits fairly evenly between 2 people (29%) and 4 people (26%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 72.1% of families in the area. This contributes to a low rate of one-parent families at 7.2%, which is well below both the state and national figures.
7.2% ▼ -5.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alfords Point, Couples with children is the majority at 72%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Alfords Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10031/alfords-point/topic/family-households