2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Palm Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Palm Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home is common in Palm Beach compared to most similar areas. This is a place where two-person households are the most typical, making up 46.2% of all homes.
2.3
→ 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 Palm Beach — lower than 71% of areas.
| Palm Beach | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2108, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. About 24.5% of people live alone, a rate that is about the same as the state average.
24.5% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Palm Beach, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 4 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45.6% of families, while couples without children are nearly as common at 44.5%. One-parent families account for 9.5%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.5% ▼ -9.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Palm Beach splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (45%), 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 Palm Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13143/palm-beach/topic/family-households