3.5 —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dalwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dalwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
A typical home in Dalwood holds 3.5 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. This makes it one of the areas with the largest households in the region. Most of these homes are family-based, with very few people living by themselves.
3.5
—
- 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 Dalwood — higher than 95% of areas.
| Dalwood | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| 2335, NSW | 2.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 10.3% of people live alone here, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 25%. Most households are larger, with 31% containing three people and 17.2% containing five.
10.3% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dalwood splits fairly evenly between 2 people (29%) and 3 people (26%), with 5 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 66.3%. One-parent families account for 15.8% of the total, which is a little above the Australian average of 14.1%.
15.8% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dalwood, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Dalwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11197/dalwood/topic/family-households