2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ashfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ashfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than three in ten people live alone in Ashfield, creating a local landscape with a high number of small households. This makes it a place where single-person living is far more common than in most other Australian areas, with the typical home holding just 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Ashfield — lower than 71% of areas.
| Ashfield | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2131, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here at 32.1%, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why Ashfield has fewer people per home (2.3) than the state average of 2.6.
32.1% ▲ +15.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 32.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ashfield splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of all families are couples with children, while 34.1% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 13% of the total, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas but a little below the national average of 14.1%.
13.0% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ashfield, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without 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 Ashfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10099/ashfield/topic/family-households