2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Long Jetty · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Long Jetty
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Long Jetty than in the rest of New South Wales, with 37.1% of households consisting of just one person. This trend makes the area stand out from national patterns, resulting in smaller average home sizes and a unique mix of family structures.
2.2
→ 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 Long Jetty — lower than 76% of areas.
| Long Jetty | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2261, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Long Jetty holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. Single-person households are very common here, making up 37.1% of all homes, which is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
37.1% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Long Jetty splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23% of the local total, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average of 14%. Other family types include couples with children at 46.7% and couples without children at 29%.
23.0% ▼ -13.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Long Jetty, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (23%).
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 Long Jetty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12387/long-jetty/topic/family-households