1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lavender Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lavender Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-three per cent of households in Lavender Bay consist of just one person, making it an area with very small living arrangements. This is a far higher share of single-person homes than the national figure, contributing to a very low average number of people per household.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Lavender Bay — lower than 91% of areas.
| Lavender Bay | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2060, NSW | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 1.8 people per home, Lavender Bay is well below the New South Wales average of 2.6. This is driven by the fact that 43% of residents live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%.
43.0% ▼ -3.2%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.4%
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 43.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lavender Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (41%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 53.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.7% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
8.7% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lavender Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 36%.
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 Lavender Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12294/lavender-bay/topic/family-households