3.4 ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greenacre · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Greenacre
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Greenacre than in most similar areas. This is a place where large households are the norm, with the typical home holding 3.4 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.4
▲ +3.0%
- 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 Greenacre — higher than 93% of areas.
| Greenacre | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| 2190, NSW | 3.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is uncommon here, with only 18.7% of households being single-person, a figure well below the Australian average of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes are so crowded, as 14.3% of households contain six or more people.
18.7% ▼ -3.9%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Greenacre splits fairly evenly between 2 people (21%) and 1 person (19%), with 4 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 71.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 16.3% of the total, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 14% and much higher than most similar areas.
16.3% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greenacre, Couples with children is the majority at 71%; One-parent families is next at 16%.
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 Greenacre [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11763/greenacre/topic/family-households