2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Pleasant · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Pleasant
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Mount Pleasant than in most similar areas, with a typical household of 2.9 people. This makes the area stand out as a place where few people live alone, as only 15.6% of households are single-person homes.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Mount Pleasant — higher than 81% of areas.
| Mount Pleasant | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2519, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than the national figure of 2.5 people, and well above the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This is reflected in the fact that 30.2% of households have two people, while 24.2% have four.
15.6% ▼ -5.8%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 4 people (24%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 67.7% of families, while one-parent families are much less common here than in the rest of the country, at just 8.6%.
8.6% ▲ +8.7%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12795/mount-pleasant/topic/family-households