3.2 ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fletcher · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fletcher
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes and family units have shaped Fletcher over the last decade, with the typical household now holding more people than most Australian suburbs. This trend is clear in the local numbers, where the usual home holds 3.2 people, well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.2
▼ -5.9%
- 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 Fletcher — higher than 89% of areas.
| Fletcher | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 2287, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Fletcher has a very low rate of people living alone at 8.4%, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why home sizes are larger here, with 29.1% of households containing four people.
8.4% ▲ +22.1%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fletcher splits fairly evenly between 4 people (29%) and 2 people (27%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 74% of the total. One-parent families account for 9.7%, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales and national averages of around 14%.
9.7% ▲ +32.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fletcher, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
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 Fletcher [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11536/fletcher/topic/family-households