2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cathcart · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cathcart
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Cathcart are couples with children. This is a place where households are often larger than in most similar areas, with the typical home housing 2.6 people.
2.6
—
- 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 Cathcart — higher than 57% of areas.
| Cathcart | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 2632, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Two-person homes are the most common here, making up 47.4% of all households. While 23.7% of people live alone, this is a little below the national figure of 25.6%.
23.7% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cathcart, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 5 people (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.3% of the total, which is well above the Australian average of 14.1% and much higher than most similar areas.
19.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cathcart, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Cathcart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10854/cathcart/topic/family-households