2.0 ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brushgrove · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brushgrove
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Brushgrove, where the typical home holds just two people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where many adults live alone or as couples without children.
2.0
▼ -20.0%
- 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 Brushgrove — lower than 86% of areas.
| Brushgrove | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2460, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31% of people live alone, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.0 people is much lower than most other areas.
31.0% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Brushgrove, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here at 51.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 12.0% of the total, which is a little below the Australian average of 14.1%.
12.0% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brushgrove, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Brushgrove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10619/brushgrove/topic/family-households