2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
La Perouse · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in La Perouse
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define La Perouse, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This community stands out for having very few people living alone and a remarkably high number of single-parent families.
2.8
→ 0.0%
- 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 La Perouse — higher than 76% of areas.
| La Perouse | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2036, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 14.7% of people here live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes are more crowded than usual, with 43.1% of households containing two people and nearly 20% holding three.
14.7% ▼ -34.5%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In La Perouse, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 3 people (20%) and 1 person (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 31.1% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children are the most common group at 46.6%.
31.1% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In La Perouse, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by One-parent families (30%) and Couples without children (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 La Perouse [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12238/la-perouse/topic/family-households