3.1 ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kurnell · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Kurnell
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a roof in Kurnell than in most of the country, with the typical home holding 3.1 people. This creates a distinct family-focused environment where very few residents live on their own compared to the rest of Australia.
3.1
▲ +3.3%
- 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 Kurnell — higher than 88% of areas.
| Kurnell | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 2231, NSW | 3.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 15.9% of people live alone here, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the average home size is a little above the New South Wales average, with 28.3% of households containing two people and 24.2% containing four.
15.9% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kurnell splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 4 people (24%), with 1 person at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the area at 67.1%. One-parent families account for 13.4% of the total, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the state and national averages.
13.4% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kurnell, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Kurnell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12224/kurnell/topic/family-households