1.9 ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Millers Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Millers Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define Millers Point, where the typical home holds just 1.9 people. This is much lower than most areas, reflecting a community where nearly 40% of residents live alone.
1.9
▲ +5.6%
- 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 Millers Point — lower than 89% of areas.
| Millers Point | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2000, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 40% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home is small, with 43.3% of households containing two people and only 0.8% holding five or more.
39.8% ▼ -8.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Millers Point splits fairly evenly between 2 people (44%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 58.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 6.1% of the total, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 14%.
6.1% ▼ -61.4%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Millers Point, Couples without children is the majority at 59%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Millers Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12630/millers-point/topic/family-households