2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Girards Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Girards Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Girards Hill than in most similar areas, with 36.7% of households consisting of just one person. This makes it a place of smaller-than-average homes, where the typical household is much smaller than those found across the rest of the state.
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 Girards Hill — lower than 81% of areas.
| Girards Hill | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2480, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.1 people live in the typical home here, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This low number is driven by a high proportion of single-person households, which are far more common here than in New South Wales.
36.7% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Girards Hill splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 29.8% of the local total, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.1%. This is among the highest proportions of single-parent families seen at this level.
29.8% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Girards Hill, the largest group is Couples with children at 37%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (30%).
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 Girards Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11635/girards-hill/topic/family-households