2.1 —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Reids Flat · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Reids Flat
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Reids Flat than in the rest of Australia. This contributes to a small typical household size, with just 2.1 people per home. Many dwellings here house only one or two people.
2.1
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- 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 Reids Flat — lower than 81% of areas.
| Reids Flat | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2586, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35.1% of people live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes here are smaller than most areas, with over half containing only two people.
35.1% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Reids Flat, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.4% of families, while couples without children account for 45.2%. Only 8.1% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
8.1% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Reids Flat splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (44%), 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 Reids Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13360/reids-flat/topic/family-households