2.9 → 0.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Garden Suburb · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Garden Suburb
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large households are a defining feature of Garden Suburb, where 2.9 people live in the typical home. This is much higher than most areas, reflecting a community where few people live alone and families are the dominant living arrangement.
2.9
→ 0.0%
- 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 Garden Suburb — higher than 81% of areas.
| Garden Suburb | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2289, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 16.1% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes here are larger than usual, with 22.1% of households containing four people.
16.1% ▲ +8.9%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Garden Suburb, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 66.9%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.4%, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 14.0%.
9.4% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Garden Suburb, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Garden Suburb [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11591/garden-suburb/topic/family-households