2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eastwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eastwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger-than-average households have become more common in Eastwood, where the typical home now holds 2.8 people. This shift is reflected in a low number of people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.8
→ 0.0%
- 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 Eastwood — higher than 76% of areas.
| Eastwood | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2122, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Eastwood are more crowded than in most areas, with 2.8 people per house. This is partly because only 20% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
20.0% ▼ -1.9%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Eastwood, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 3 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 63% of the total. One-parent families account for 10.6%, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales and Australian averages.
10.6% ▼ -8.4%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eastwood, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Eastwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11372/eastwood/topic/family-households