3.0 ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Glenquarry · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Glenquarry
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Glenquarry compared to the rest of the country, where only 14.6% of households are single-person. This creates a community of larger households, with a typical home holding 3.0 people.
3.0
▲ +15.4%
- 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 Glenquarry — higher than 86% of areas.
| Glenquarry | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2576, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 3.0 people per household, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Two-person homes are the most common at 34.1%, while only 14.6% of residents live alone—a rate far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
14.6% ▼ -11.1%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Glenquarry, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 3 people (22%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most households are families, with 61.4% being couples with children. One-parent families make up 16.6% of the total, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
16.6% ▲ +388.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Glenquarry, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Glenquarry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11678/glenquarry/topic/family-households