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.
Meadowbank · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Meadowbank
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become the defining feature of Meadowbank since 2011. Only 2.0 people typically live in each home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend is driven by a very high number of people living alone.
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 Meadowbank — lower than 86% of areas.
| Meadowbank | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2114, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 37% of residents live alone, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This helps explain why typical homes are much smaller than in most other areas, with 37.3% of households containing just two people.
37.0% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Meadowbank splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 44.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.3%, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
9.3% ▲ +13.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Meadowbank splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Meadowbank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12560/meadowbank/topic/family-households