2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Pejar · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Pejar
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home than most similar areas makes Pejar a place of smaller households. While nearly half of all families here include children, the typical home holds just 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure.
2.2
—
- 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 Pejar — lower than 76% of areas.
| Pejar | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2583, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 24.1% of residents live alone, which is about the same as the New South Wales average. Most homes are small, with 34.5% holding two people and 24.1% holding three.
24.1% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Pejar, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (26%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 8.6% of the total, a figure well below both the state and national averages. Couples with children and those without are almost equal, at 48.3% and 46.6% respectively.
8.6% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Pejar splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent 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 Pejar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13187/pejar/topic/family-households