2.0 ▼ -33.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Banksmeadow · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much smaller households than most similar areas define Banksmeadow, where only 2.0 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a local landscape where small homes and solo living are far more common than in the rest of the country.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Banksmeadow — lower than 86% of areas.
| Banksmeadow | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2019, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
A high number of people live alone here, making up 31.5% of all households, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This helps explain why 2-person homes are the most common at 42.4%, while five-person households are completely absent.
2.0 ▼ -33.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
31.5% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Banksmeadow, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (20%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 44.1%, followed closely by couples with children at 41.7%. One-parent families make up 9.9% of the total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
9.9% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Banksmeadow splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 10%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Banksmeadow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10180/banksmeadow/topic/family-households