2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Narrabeen · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Narrabeen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become the dominant story for Narrabeen, where the number of people living alone is now far above the national figure. This shift is reflected in the typical home, which holds only 2.0 people—well below the Australian average of 2.5.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 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 Narrabeen — lower than 86% of areas.
| Narrabeen | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2101, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 39% of homes in Narrabeen are occupied by just one person, a rate far above both the state and national figures. This high proportion of single-person households helps explain why the typical home here is much smaller than in most other areas.
38.5% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.8%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Narrabeen splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46.1% of local families, while 39% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 14% of the total, which is higher than most areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
14.0% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Narrabeen, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (39%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Narrabeen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12911/narrabeen/topic/family-households