3.2 —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Collaroy Plateau · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Collaroy Plateau
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 75% of families in Collaroy Plateau are couples with children. This makes it a place where households are typically much larger than the national average, with few people living on their own.
3.2
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- 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 Collaroy Plateau — higher than 89% of areas.
| Collaroy Plateau | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 2097, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With a typical 3.2 people per home, this area has some of the highest household sizes at this level. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, and only 11.6% of people live alone, which is far below the Australian average of 25.6%.
11.6% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Collaroy Plateau splits fairly evenly between 4 people (29%) and 2 people (24%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 74.9% of families here. One-parent families represent 8.2% of the total, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales and national averages of around 14%.
8.2% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Collaroy Plateau, Couples with children is the majority at 75%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Collaroy Plateau [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10971/collaroy-plateau/topic/family-households