3.5 —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forest Glen · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Forest Glen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Forest Glen than in most similar areas. The area is dominated by large family groups, with a typical household of 3.5 people and almost no one living alone.
3.5
—
- 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 Forest Glen — higher than 95% of areas.
| Forest Glen | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| 2157, NSW | 3.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than the national figure of 2.5 people. This is reflected in the breakdown, where 32% of households contain five or more people, while 0.0% of residents live by themselves.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Forest Glen, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 4 people (23%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families here. This helps explain why one-parent families are much lower than most areas, sitting at just 5.6% compared to the national figure of 14.1%.
5.6% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Forest Glen, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Forest Glen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11545/forest-glen/topic/family-households