3.5 ▲ +34.6%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 5.0
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brookdale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brookdale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than usual define daily life in Brookdale, where the typical home holds 3.5 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, marking it as one of the most crowded areas for this type of dwelling.
3.5
▲ +34.6%
- 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 Brookdale — higher than 95% of areas.
| Brookdale | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| 2656, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People per home is 3.5, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 2.6 and the Australian average of 2.5.
Household size
View on map →Brookdale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (50%) and 4 people (50%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up 62.5% of the area. One-parent families are less common here at 7.5%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
7.5% ▲ +18.0%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brookdale, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Brookdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10592/brookdale/topic/family-households