3.3 ▲ +17.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cattai · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cattai
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become a defining feature of Cattai, where the typical home now holds more people than most other areas. This shift is seen in the high proportion of couples raising children, which makes the area feel very different from the state and national averages.
3.3
▲ +17.9%
- 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 Cattai — higher than 91% of areas.
| Cattai | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 2756, NSW | 2.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Cattai are well above the national figure for size, with 3.3 people per household. This is reflected in the low number of people living alone, at just 14.8%, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
14.8% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cattai, the largest group is 2 people at 25%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up a huge 73.9% of families here. This helps explain why one-parent families are much lower than most areas, at only 5.4% compared to the 14.1% national figure.
5.4% ▼ -41.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cattai, Couples with children is the majority at 73%; 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 Cattai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10858/cattai/topic/family-households