1.4 ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5
- 2016: 1.5
- 2021: 1.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Potts Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Potts Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 64% of homes in Potts Point are occupied by a single person. This makes it a place where people living alone are far more common than in the rest of the state or nation, resulting in very small household sizes.
1.4
▼ -6.7%
- 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 Potts Point — lower than 99% of areas.
| Potts Point | 1.4 |
|---|---|
| 2011, NSW | 1.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has just 1.4 people, which is far below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 63.6% of households consist of one person, among the highest proportions for any similar area.
63.6% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.4%
- 2016: 55.3%
- 2021: 63.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Potts Point, 1 person is the majority at 64%; 2 people is next at 31%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families at 75.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 6.0%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
6.0% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Potts Point, Couples without children is the majority at 76%; Couples with children 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 Potts Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13268/potts-point/topic/family-households