2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Merewether Heights · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Merewether Heights
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Merewether Heights compared to the rest of the country. This area is dominated by larger households, with the typical home holding 2.9 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Merewether Heights — higher than 81% of areas.
| Merewether Heights | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2291, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than in most areas, and only 16.6% of people live alone—well below the 25.6% national average. About 29.4% of households have two people, while 27.5% contain four people.
16.6% ▲ +24.1%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Merewether Heights splits fairly evenly between 2 people (29%) and 4 people (27%), with 1 person at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 72.1%. One-parent families account for 7.2%, which is well below both the New South Wales and Australian figures of around 14%.
7.2% ▲ +1.1%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Merewether Heights, Couples with children is the majority at 72%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Merewether Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12585/merewether-heights/topic/family-households