2.7 —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fernside · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fernside
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are common in Fernside, where the typical home holds 2.7 people. This is slightly more than the national figure, reflecting a community where few people live by themselves and many families raise children together.
2.7
—
- 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 Fernside — higher than 71% of areas.
| Fernside | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 2480, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 19% of people here live alone, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 25%. This contributes to larger homes, with 33.3% of households containing three people.
19.0% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Fernside, the largest group is 3 people at 37%, followed by 2 people (26%) and 1 person (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.3% of the area, which is well above the 14.1% national average. Almost half of all families are couples with children, at 48.9%.
21.3% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fernside, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Fernside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11513/fernside/topic/family-households