3.0 ▼ -3.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clontarf · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Clontarf
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger than usual homes define daily life in Clontarf, where the typical household has 3.0 people. This is higher than the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community built largely around family units rather than individuals living alone.
3.0
▼ -3.2%
- 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 Clontarf — higher than 86% of areas.
| Clontarf | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2093, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 13.3% of people live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. Because so few people live solo, homes here are much more crowded than in most areas, with 32.4% of households containing two people and 22.5% having four.
13.3% ▲ +12.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Clontarf, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (23%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up the vast majority of the area at 70.3%. This helps explain why one-parent families are much less common here at 6.1%, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 14.0%.
6.1% ▲ +66.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Clontarf, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Clontarf [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10934/clontarf/topic/family-households