2.0 ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Neutral Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Neutral Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small living arrangements define Neutral Bay, where the typical home holds only two people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, creating a neighborhood of small households and a very high number of people living on their own.
2.0
▲ +5.3%
- 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 Neutral Bay — lower than 86% of areas.
| Neutral Bay | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2089, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 40% of people here live alone, which is far above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home size is just 2.0 people, much lower than most other areas.
39.7% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Neutral Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46.6% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 12.1%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
12.1% ▲ +34.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Neutral Bay, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (40%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Neutral Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12943/neutral-bay/topic/family-households