2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balmain · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Balmain
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Balmain than in the rest of the country, with 33.2% of households being single-person homes. This creates a distinct housing profile for Balmain, where small household sizes are the norm compared to state and national figures.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Balmain — lower than 76% of areas.
| Balmain | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2041, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Balmain holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which are much more common here than in most other areas.
33.2% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Balmain splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 57.3% of local families, while 31.6% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 10.1% of the total, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 14.0%.
10.1% ▼ -3.0%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Balmain, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Balmain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10165/balmain/topic/family-households