2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cammeray · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cammeray
How families and households are made up across the area.
A growing number of single-person households has shifted the domestic landscape in Cammeray. This shift is most visible in the high proportion of people living alone, which is now well above the national figure. The area is predominantly made up of couples with or without children.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 Cammeray — lower than 76% of areas.
| Cammeray | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2062, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with 32.6% of households consisting of just one person. This helps explain why the typical home in Cammeray holds only 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
32.6% ▼ -6.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cammeray splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families at 56.6%, while couples without children account for 31.1%. One-parent families make up 11.2% of the total, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
11.2% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cammeray, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Cammeray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10777/cammeray/topic/family-households