2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lane Cove · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lane Cove
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a quarter of the population in Lane Cove lives alone, marking it as a place with a high number of single-person households. While typical homes hold about 2.4 people, the area is mostly made up of couples with children and a significant number of people living solo.
2.4
→ 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 Lane Cove — lower than 57% of areas.
| Lane Cove | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2066, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 28.8% of residents live alone, which is well above both the New South Wales figure of 25% and the national average. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 33.4% of all households.
28.8% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lane Cove splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 61.5%, while one-parent families account for 9.9%. This last figure is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
9.9% ▲ +3.8%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lane Cove, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Lane Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12275/lane-cove/topic/family-households