2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fairy Meadow · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fairy Meadow
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person living is much more common in Fairy Meadow than in other parts of the country. This creates a local mix where roughly 31% of homes are occupied by someone living alone, though half of the area's families still consist of couples raising children.
2.4
→ 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 Fairy Meadow — lower than 57% of areas.
| Fairy Meadow | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2519, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31% of people here live alone, which is well above the national figure of 26%. The typical home holds 2.4 people, a figure that is about the same as the New South Wales average.
30.9% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fairy Meadow splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.4% of the area, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This is a much higher proportion than in most similar areas.
18.4% ▲ +3.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fairy Meadow, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; 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 Fairy Meadow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11487/fairy-meadow/topic/family-households