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.
Chiswick · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Chiswick
How families and households are made up across the area.
Well above the national figure, 33.8% of people in Chiswick live alone. This makes the area's homes smaller than usual, with a typical household of just 2.2 people. Most residents live in couples, though a large number of single-person households set the area apart from the rest of the state.
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 Chiswick — lower than 76% of areas.
| Chiswick | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2046, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One-person homes are very common here, making up 33.8% of all households, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.2 people, a little below the national average of 2.5.
33.8% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Chiswick splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.2% of families, while couples without children account for 33.4%. One-parent families make up 10.1% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
10.1% ▼ -2.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Chiswick, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Chiswick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10909/chiswick/topic/family-households