2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Harolds Cross · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Harolds Cross
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people share a home in Harolds Cross than in most similar areas. This is a sparsely populated place where small households are common, with a notable 32.3% of residents living alone.
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 Harolds Cross — lower than 71% of areas.
| Harolds Cross | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2622, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This is reflected in the fact that 32.3% of people live alone, a rate well above the national figure of 25.6%.
32.3% ▲ +9.5%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Harolds Cross splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family types are skewed toward couples, with 47.5% having children and 40.7% without. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, which is far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Harolds Cross, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 46%.
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 Harolds Cross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11862/harolds-cross/topic/family-households