1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
North Sydney · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in North Sydney
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in North Sydney than in most similar areas. This results in a very small typical household size of just 1.9 people, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
1.9
→ 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 North Sydney — lower than 89% of areas.
| North Sydney | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2060, NSW | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 42.3% of households consist of one person, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This explains why the area has much lower occupancy per home than most other places.
42.3% ▲ +3.9%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.7%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →North Sydney splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 46.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.6%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
9.6% ▲ +18.3%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →North Sydney splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 North Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13020/north-sydney/topic/family-households