2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Belmont · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Belmont
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Belmont than in most similar areas. This is a small-household community where 33.4% of homes are occupied by just one person, contributing to a typical home size that is smaller than the state and national figures.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Belmont — lower than 76% of areas.
| Belmont | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2280, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home in Belmont has 2.2 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, with 33.4% of residents living alone—well above the national figure of 25.6%.
33.4% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Belmont splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.7% of the local mix, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Most families here are couples, with 47% having children and 34.2% without.
17.7% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Belmont, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Belmont [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10276/belmont/topic/family-households