3.1 ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Claymore · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Claymore
How families and households are made up across the area.
A gap of over 20 percentage points separates Claymore from the state average for single-parent families. This is a place where homes are larger than usual and a high number of children live with one parent. The typical home in Claymore holds 3.1 people, which is higher than the national figure.
3.1
▼ -11.4%
- 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 Claymore — higher than 88% of areas.
| Claymore | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 2559, NSW | 3.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 3.1 people per home, Claymore has some of the highest household sizes for its area. Only 20.1% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
20.1% ▲ +36.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Claymore splits fairly evenly between 2 people (21%) and 1 person (20%), with 4 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 34.6% of the area, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children are the most common family type at 56.7%.
34.6% ▼ -31.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.7%
- 2016: 51.7%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Claymore, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; One-parent families is next at 35%.
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 Claymore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10923/claymore/topic/family-households