2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fawcetts Plain · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fawcetts Plain
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger-than-average households have become a defining feature of Fawcetts Plain, where the typical home now holds nearly three people. This trend is driven by a high proportion of couples with children and very few people living on their own.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Fawcetts Plain — higher than 81% of areas.
| Fawcetts Plain | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2474, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than usual, with an average of 2.9 people per dwelling. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, and only 7.5% of residents live alone, which is far below the Australian average of 25.6%.
7.5% ▼ -56.8%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Fawcetts Plain, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most households are families, with 66.9% being couples with children. One-parent families make up only 2.9% of the total, a figure that is far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
2.9% ▼ -56.3%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fawcetts Plain, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Fawcetts Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11501/fawcetts-plain/topic/family-households