1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Milsons Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Milsons Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of people live alone in Milsons Point than in the rest of the state. This is a small-household area where the typical home has only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Milsons Point — lower than 91% of areas.
| Milsons Point | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2061, NSW | 1.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 40.3% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why homes here are among the smallest, with 43.9% of households containing just two people.
40.3% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Milsons Point splits fairly evenly between 2 people (44%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the majority of families at 57.0%. One-parent families account for 10.5% of the total, which is well below the national average of 14.1%.
10.5% ▲ +46.7%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Milsons Point, Couples without children is the majority at 57%; Couples with children is next at 31%.
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 Milsons Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12640/milsons-point/topic/family-households