2.7 —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forbesdale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Forbesdale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Roughly half of all families in Forbesdale include children, making it a child-friendly area. The typical home here is larger than in most similar places, and it is much less common for people to live alone than it is across Australia.
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 Forbesdale — higher than 71% of areas.
| Forbesdale | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 2422, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 2.7 people per home, household sizes are higher than most areas. Only 20% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
20.0% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Forbesdale, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (17%) and 4 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 49% of families, while 37.1% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 10.5%, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 14%.
10.5% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Forbesdale, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 38%.
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 Forbesdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11542/forbesdale/topic/family-households