2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coal Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Coal Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Coal Point compared to most similar areas. This small community is mostly made up of family groups, with the typical home holding about 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Coal Point — higher than 50% of areas.
| Coal Point | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2283, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 18.4% of people live alone here, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 25%. Two-person households are the most common, making up 45.6% of all homes.
18.4% ▲ +9.9%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coal Point, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the main family type at 53.7%. This helps explain why one-parent families are much less common here at 8%, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.0% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Coal Point, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 38%.
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 Coal Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10942/coal-point/topic/family-households