2.4 ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mossy Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mossy Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Roughly the same number of people share a home in Mossy Point as across the rest of the country. The area is mostly made up of small households, with 2.4 people living in the typical home.
2.4
▲ +4.3%
- 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 Mossy Point — lower than 57% of areas.
| Mossy Point | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2537, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost half of all homes (46.3%) are shared by two people, while 23.6% of residents live alone. This is a little below the national figure of 25.6%.
23.6% ▼ -19.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mossy Point, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 43.2% of families, followed closely by couples without children at 42%. One-parent families account for 14.7%, which is higher than most similar areas.
14.7% ▲ +30.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mossy Point splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (41%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 Mossy Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12752/mossy-point/topic/family-households