3.0 ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Rankin · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Rankin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households are the norm in Mount Rankin compared to most similar areas. With a typical home holding 3.0 people, it stands out for having far fewer people living alone than the state or national average.
3.0
▲ +3.4%
- 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 Rankin — higher than 86% of areas.
| Mount Rankin | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2795, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 14% of residents live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes contain two people (33.8%), while a little over a third of households have three or more residents.
14.0% ▲ +8.0%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Rankin, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 3 people (19%) and 1 person (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples with children, who make up 68.3% of the area. Only 7.8% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 14%.
7.8% ▲ +54.8%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Rankin, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Rankin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12797/mount-rankin/topic/family-households