2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forest Lodge · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Forest Lodge
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 49% of families in Forest Lodge are couples with children, making this the most common family type in the area. However, the overall picture is one of small households, with a very high proportion of people living on their own.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Lodge — lower than 81% of areas.
| Forest Lodge | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2037, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with a typical home holding 2.1 people, which is much lower than most areas. This is driven by the fact that 35.9% of people live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%.
35.9% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Forest Lodge splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up a large slice of the community at 40.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.9%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
9.9% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Forest Lodge, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (40%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Lodge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11549/forest-lodge/topic/family-households