3.8 ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 3.6
- 2021: 3.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Vernon · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Vernon
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Mount Vernon, where the typical home holds 3.8 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, marking the area as a place where very few people live alone.
3.8
▲ +8.6%
- 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 Vernon — higher than 99% of areas.
| Mount Vernon | 3.8 |
|---|---|
| 2178, NSW | 3.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 7.7% of residents live by themselves, which is far below the 25.6% national average. Large homes are common here, with 16.9% of households containing six or more people.
7.7% ▲ +19.3%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mount Vernon splits fairly evenly between 2 people (25%) and 5 people (20%), with 4 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 74.8%. One-parent families account for 7.6%, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 14%.
7.6% ▲ +114.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Vernon, Couples with children is the majority at 75%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Vernon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12807/mount-vernon/topic/family-households