2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bawley Point · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much fewer one-parent families live in Bawley Point compared to the state or national figures. This is a place where nearly half of all homes house couples without children, and the typical household is smaller than the Australian average.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Bawley Point — lower than 76% of areas.
| Bawley Point | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2539, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Homes in Bawley Point hold 2.2 people on average, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. About 26.4% of people live alone, a rate slightly above the New South Wales average.
2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
26.4% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Bawley Point, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (27%) and 3 people (11%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up only 7.7% of the area, which is well below the 14.1% national average. The community is split almost evenly between couples with children (46.7%) and those without (45.1%).
7.7% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Bawley Point splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 8%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Bawley Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10235/bawley-point/topic/family-households