3.1 ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Calderwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Calderwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Calderwood than in the rest of the country. This is a place where households are larger than usual, with the typical home holding 3.1 people. Most residents live in family groups, making the area much less likely to have single-person homes compared to the state average.
3.1
▼ -11.4%
- 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 Calderwood — higher than 88% of areas.
| Calderwood | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 2527, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Calderwood are larger than the national figure, with 3.1 people per house. This helps explain why only 7.6% of people live alone, a figure that is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
7.6% ▲ +4.4%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Calderwood, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (25%) and 3 people (22%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the biggest group here at 68.4%. One-parent families account for 10.3% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% national average.
10.3% ▼ -45.9%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Calderwood, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Calderwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10749/calderwood/topic/family-households