2.5 ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Memagong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Memagong
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Memagong than in the rest of the country. While the typical home holds 2.5 people, matching the national figure, the community is split between many single-person households and larger family groups.
2.5
▼ -10.7%
- 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 Memagong — higher than 50% of areas.
| Memagong | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2594, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 36.7% of residents live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This is a significant jump compared to the New South Wales average.
36.7% ▲ +97.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Memagong splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (38%), with 5 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children (63.2%), while one-parent families make up 8.8% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.8% ▲ +2.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Memagong, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Memagong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12576/memagong/topic/family-households