2.9 → 0.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eglinton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eglinton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Eglinton, where the typical home holds 2.9 people. This is higher than the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where few people live alone.
2.9
→ 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 Eglinton — higher than 81% of areas.
| Eglinton | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2795, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 14.9% of people here live alone, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 25%. This helps explain why home sizes are larger, with 32.9% of households containing two people and 22.2% holding four.
14.9% ▲ +12.3%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Eglinton, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 62.9%. One-parent families account for 13.4%, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the national average.
13.4% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eglinton, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Eglinton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11389/eglinton/topic/family-households