3.2 ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Appin · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Appin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large households are the norm in Appin, where 3.2 people typically share a home. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community heavily weighted towards families with children rather than people living alone.
3.2
▲ +3.2%
- 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 Appin — higher than 89% of areas.
| Appin | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 2560, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 12.9% of people here live by themselves, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. Because so few people live alone, household sizes are among the highest for similar areas.
12.9% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Appin splits fairly evenly between 2 people (25%) and 4 people (23%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 71.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.2%, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.2% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Appin, Couples with children is the majority at 72%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
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 Appin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10064/appin/topic/family-households