2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Macquarie Park · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Macquarie Park
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Macquarie Park than in the rest of the state, with over a third of households consisting of just one person. This creates a distinct profile for the area, where small households are the norm and typical home sizes are well below the national figure.
2.0
→ 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 Macquarie Park — lower than 86% of areas.
| Macquarie Park | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2113, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home here, a figure well below the national average of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which make up 35.4% of the area—far above the New South Wales figure of 25%.
35.4% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.5%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Macquarie Park, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 44.1%, while couples with children follow closely at 42.3%. One-parent families account for 10.0% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.0% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Macquarie Park splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 Macquarie Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12446/macquarie-park/topic/family-households