2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Paddington · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Paddington
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Paddington compared to the rest of the country. This trend creates a distinct housing pattern for the area, where the typical home is smaller and holds only 2.1 people.
2.1
→ 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 Paddington — lower than 81% of areas.
| Paddington | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2021, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 37.1% of residents live by themselves, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the number of people per home is much lower than in most other areas.
37.1% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Paddington splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of the families here are couples with children, while 38.1% are couples without. One-parent families make up 9.8% of the total, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 14%.
9.8% ▲ +9.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Paddington, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 38%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Paddington
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Paddington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13126/paddington/topic/family-households