2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Palmwoods · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Palmwoods
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Palmwoods than in most similar areas. The area has a diverse mix of home types, with a typical household size of 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
—
- 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 Palmwoods — higher than 50% of areas.
| Palmwoods | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2482, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high 36.4% of people live alone, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 25%. Other than these single-person homes, the remaining households are split between two-person (36.4%) and three-person (31.8%) homes.
36.4% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Palmwoods splits fairly evenly between 1 person (28%) and 2 people (28%), with 3 people at 24%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.1% of the community, which is well above the state average of 14%. Most families here are couples with children, who account for 75.6% of the total.
17.1% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Palmwoods, Couples with children is the majority at 76%; One-parent families is next at 17%.
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 Palmwoods [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13150/palmwoods/topic/family-households