2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brookfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brookfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Half of all households in Brookfield are made up of two people. This is a place where few people live alone and homes are generally larger than the national figure.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Brookfield — higher than 76% of areas.
| Brookfield | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2420, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 2.8 people per home, households here are much larger than in most areas. Only 13.3% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
13.3% ▼ -32.5%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Brookfield, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 3 people (14%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the biggest group at 46.1%. One-parent families account for 9.0%, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1%.
9.0% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brookfield, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (9%).
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 Brookfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10593/brookfield/topic/family-households