3.0 ▼ -3.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Menai · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Menai
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Menai than in most other areas, with only 13.6% of households consisting of one person. This makes Menai a place where large households are the norm, often containing three or more people.
3.0
▼ -3.2%
- 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 Menai — higher than 86% of areas.
| Menai | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2234, NSW | 3.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Menai are larger than usual, with 3.0 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is much higher than most areas, and nearly 30% of households contain two people while 25% hold four.
13.6% ▲ +14.4%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Menai splits fairly evenly between 2 people (29%) and 4 people (25%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families here at 68.4%. In contrast, one-parent families account for 12.0%, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
12.0% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Menai, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Menai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12578/menai/topic/family-households