2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rhodes · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rhodes
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples without children make up the largest group in Rhodes, accounting for 44.8% of families. This is a place where small households are common and the typical home holds fewer people than the state or national figures.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Rhodes — lower than 76% of areas.
| Rhodes | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2138, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Rhodes has 2.2 people, which is lower than most areas and slightly below the national figure of 2.5. Two-person households are the most common at 43.9%, while about 25.7% of people live alone.
25.7% ▲ +15.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rhodes, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 8.5% of the total, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales and Australian averages of around 14%. This is alongside a nearly equal split between couples with children (44.1%) and those without (44.8%).
8.5% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Rhodes splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Rhodes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13372/rhodes/topic/family-households