2.7 —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rocky Plain · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rocky Plain
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost no one lives alone in Rocky Plain, making it an outlier compared to most other areas. The community is built around larger households, with nearly 60% of families consisting of couples with children.
2.7
—
- 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 Rocky Plain — higher than 71% of areas.
| Rocky Plain | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 2628, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than in most areas, typically holding 2.7 people. This is reflected in the household mix, where 40.9% of homes house two people and 31.8% house four.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rocky Plain, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 4 people (37%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 59.3%. One-parent families account for 14.8%, which is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure.
14.8% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rocky Plain, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Rocky Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13402/rocky-plain/topic/family-households