2.9 —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alison · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Alison
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of the families in Alison are couples with children, making it a place where large households are common. This area is far less likely to have people living alone compared to the rest of the state.
2.9
—
- 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 Alison — higher than 81% of areas.
| Alison | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2259, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Alison are larger than most, with a typical 2.9 people per home. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, and only 9.4% of people live alone, which is far below the New South Wales average of 25%.
9.4% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Alison, 2 people is the majority at 56%; 1 person is next at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.8% of families here, while couples without children account for 42.9%. One-parent families are much less common than in most areas, at just 5.2%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
5.2% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alison, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 41%.
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 Alison [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10034/alison/topic/family-households