2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balmain East · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Balmain East
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Balmain East are couples with children. This defines the local domestic landscape, though a very high number of people also live alone. The area's typical home is smaller than the national figure, often housing just one or two people.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 East — lower than 76% of areas.
| Balmain East | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2041, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 33.1% of households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the 2.2 people per home is a little below the Australian average of 2.5.
33.1% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Balmain East splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (33%), with 4 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most common family type at 52.7%, while couples without children make up 38%. One-parent families account for 8.5%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14%.
8.5% ▲ +0.4%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Balmain East, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 38%.
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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10166/balmain-east/topic/family-households