2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hillsdale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hillsdale
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people now live alone in Hillsdale than in previous years, with nearly 30% of households consisting of a single person. This shift contributes to a trend where homes are smaller than the national average, though more than half of the families here still include children.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Hillsdale — lower than 71% of areas.
| Hillsdale | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2036, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 29.4% of people live alone, which is well above the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why the typical home in Hillsdale has only 2.3 people, a little below the Australian average of 2.5.
29.4% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hillsdale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 18.2% of the total, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 14.1%. Most families are couples with children, who account for 55.8% of the group.
18.2% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hillsdale, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Hillsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11918/hillsdale/topic/family-households