2.6 ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Fairy · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Fairy
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few people live by themselves in Mount Fairy, where households are mostly made up of couples and families. This creates a community where the typical home is more crowded than in most other areas, with 2.6 people living under one roof.
2.6
▼ -7.1%
- 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 Mount Fairy — higher than 57% of areas.
| Mount Fairy | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 2580, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 16% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. While the typical home size matches the state average of 2.6 people, the most common arrangement is a two-person household, making up 43.6% of homes.
16.0% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Fairy, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with children make up 49.1% of households, while couples without children account for 44.8%. Only 6.6% of families are one-parent homes, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
6.6% ▼ -21.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mount Fairy splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (49%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Mount Fairy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12769/mount-fairy/topic/family-households