2.0 ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Shannons Flat · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Shannons Flat
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Shannons Flat house just two people. This small community has a very high proportion of single-person households and far fewer one-parent families than the state or national figures.
2.0
▼ -16.7%
- 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 Shannons Flat — lower than 86% of areas.
| Shannons Flat | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2630, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home is much smaller than most areas, with only 2.0 people per household. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, and is partly because 31.0% of people live alone, which is well above the Australian average.
31.0% ▲ +38.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Shannons Flat, 2 people is the majority at 54%; 1 person is next at 32%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the biggest group at 69.0%. In contrast, there are no one-parent families here, a figure that is far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Shannons Flat, Couples without children is the majority at 58%; Couples with children is next at 42%.
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 Shannons Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13543/shannons-flat/topic/family-households