3.0 ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Middle Cove · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Middle Cove
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Middle Cove compared to the rest of the country. This area is defined by larger living arrangements, where the typical home holds 3.0 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5.
3.0
▲ +3.4%
- 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 Middle Cove — higher than 86% of areas.
| Middle Cove | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2068, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than in most areas, with 28.6% of households containing four people. Only 13.4% of residents live alone, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 25.0%.
13.4% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Middle Cove splits fairly evenly between 4 people (29%) and 2 people (28%), with 3 people at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 72.3%. This helps explain why one-parent families are only 8.7%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
8.7% ▲ +7.1%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Middle Cove, Couples with children is the majority at 72%; 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 Middle Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12613/middle-cove/topic/family-households