2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Little Forest · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Little Forest
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all households in Little Forest are couples without children. This family-oriented area has very few people living alone and a much lower rate of one-parent families than the national average. Most homes are shared, with a typical size of 2.6 people.
2.6
→ 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 Little Forest — higher than 57% of areas.
| Little Forest | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 2538, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are typically larger than in most areas, and only 17.2% of people live alone. This is well below the national figure of 25.6%. The most common household size is two people, making up 56.3% of the total.
17.2% ▼ -22.7%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Little Forest, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 4 people (16%) and 1 person (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 54.3%, while couples with children make up 47.7%. Only 6.0% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
6.0% ▲ +22.9%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Little Forest, Couples without children is the majority at 50%; Couples with children is next at 44%.
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 Little Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12360/little-forest/topic/family-households