2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Galong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Galong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Galong, where the typical home holds just 2.3 people. This is a little below the national figure, reflecting a local trend where more people live on their own than in most other areas.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Galong — lower than 71% of areas.
| Galong | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2585, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 37% of people here live alone, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 25%. These single-person homes are the most common, followed closely by two-person households at 34.6%.
37.0% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Galong splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (32%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 60.4% of local families. One-parent families account for 9.4%, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1%.
9.4% ▲ +119.2%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Galong, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Galong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11584/galong/topic/family-households