2.0 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Peelwood · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all homes in Peelwood are occupied by just one person. This makes it a place of small households and few children, which is very different from the state and national patterns.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Peelwood — lower than 86% of areas.
| Peelwood | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2583, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with just 2.0 people per home, well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the 43.5% of people living alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
2.0 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
43.5% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Peelwood, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (38%) and 4 people (14%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Families without children make up the largest group at 44.7%. There are no one-parent families in the area, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Peelwood splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (44%), with Other families at 8%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Peelwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13186/peelwood/topic/family-households