Peelwood · Suburb / Locality

Family & Households in Peelwood

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.

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📍 Peelwood, Suburb / Locality

Where Peelwood sits — Average household size

2.0
  • 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 Peelwood — lower than 86% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Peelwood2.0
2583, NSW 2.3
New South Wales 2.6
Australia 2.5

Households

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.

  • 2016: 1.4
  • 2021: 2.0

Average number of people usually resident per household.

Household size

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In Peelwood, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (38%) and 4 people (14%).

Families

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.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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Peelwood splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (44%), with Other families at 8%.

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 Peelwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13186/peelwood/topic/family-households