2.8 ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Collector · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Collector
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are common in Collector, where 65.6% of families are couples with children. This focus on family life is reflected in the low number of people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.8
▲ +3.7%
- 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 Collector — higher than 76% of areas.
| Collector | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2581, NSW | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With a typical 2.8 people per home, households here are much larger than in most areas. Only 17.4% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
17.4% ▲ +20.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Collector, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (23%) and 1 person (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up 65.6% of the local mix. One-parent families represent just 9.0% of the total, a figure well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
9.0% ▼ -6.5%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Collector, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Collector [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10972/collector/topic/family-households