2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ravenswood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ravenswood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 45% of homes in Ravenswood are occupied by a single person, making it an area with very small households. This high number of solo residents means the typical home here is much smaller than those in the rest of the state.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Ravenswood — lower than 86% of areas.
| Ravenswood | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2824, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 44.3% of people living alone, Ravenswood has one of the highest rates of single-person households for its area. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
44.3% ▲ +11.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.9%
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ravenswood, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 30.5% of the total, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 35.6%.
30.5% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Ravenswood splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (35%) and Couples without children (33%), with One-parent families at 30%.
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 Ravenswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13334/ravenswood/topic/family-households