3.3 ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rock Flat · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rock Flat
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a single home in Rock Flat than in most other areas, with a typical household size of 3.3 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5. The community is largely made up of families, with over half of all households consisting of couples with children.
3.3
▲ +22.2%
- 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 Rock Flat — higher than 91% of areas.
| Rock Flat | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| 2630, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Rock Flat are much larger than average, with 25% of households containing six or more people. While one-quarter of residents live alone, this is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 25%.
25.0% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Rock Flat splits fairly evenly between 1 person (22%) and 2 people (22%), with 3 people at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 51.6% of families here. Only 9.7% of households are one-parent families, which is well below the national average of 14.1%.
9.7% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rock Flat, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Rock Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13391/rock-flat/topic/family-households