1.8 ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Chippendale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Chippendale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live in each home in Chippendale than in most similar areas. This is a place where almost half of all households are just one person, making it much more likely to find solo dwellers here than across the rest of the state.
1.8
▼ -10.0%
- 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 Chippendale — lower than 91% of areas.
| Chippendale | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2008, NSW | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 46.1% of households consisting of one person. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, which helps explain why the typical home has only 1.8 people, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
46.1% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Chippendale, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (39%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families in the area are couples without children, making up 65.4% of the total. One-parent families are much less common here at 7.1%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.1% ▼ -15.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Chippendale, Couples without children is the majority at 66%; Couples with 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 Chippendale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10906/chippendale/topic/family-households