1.9 —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount White · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount White
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Mount White are occupied by just one person. This high number of single-person households means the area has a much smaller typical home size than most other places. It is a community where living alone is far more common than the state and national averages.
1.9
—
- 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 White — lower than 89% of areas.
| Mount White | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2250, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 48% of people in Mount White live alone, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and far above the New South Wales figure of 25%. Consequently, the typical home here has only 1.9 people, well below the national average of 2.5.
48.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 48.2%
- 2021: 48.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount White, 1 person is the majority at 52%; 2 people is next at 30%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About 52% of families here are couples with children, while 48% are couples without. One-parent families make up only 5.1% of the total, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
5.1% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mount White splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (50%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 5%.
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 White [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12814/mount-white/topic/family-households