3.4 ▲ +41.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 3.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Marsden Park · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Marsden Park
How families and households are made up across the area.
Marsden Park has some of the largest households of any similar area in the country. Most homes here are filled with families, with a typical household containing 3.4 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. This creates a distinct local profile where very few people live on their own.
3.4
▲ +41.7%
- 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 Marsden Park — higher than 93% of areas.
| Marsden Park | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| 2765, NSW | 3.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than usual, with 30% of households containing four people and another 11% having five. Only 9.1% of people live alone, a figure that is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
9.1% ▼ -74.1%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Marsden Park, the largest group is 4 people at 30%, followed by 3 people (23%) and 2 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 79.1%. This helps explain why one-parent families are less common here, at 6.7%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14%.
6.7% ▼ -58.9%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Marsden Park, Couples with children is the majority at 79%; Couples without children is next at 14%.
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 Marsden Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12515/marsden-park/topic/family-households