2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sherwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sherwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
A lack of single-parent homes defines the family life of Sherwood, where 76% of families are couples raising children. This creates a very different domestic landscape compared to the rest of the state, with the community consisting almost entirely of two-parent households.
2.4
—
- 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 Sherwood — lower than 57% of areas.
| Sherwood | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2450, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Sherwood has 2.4 people, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 2.6 and the national figure of 2.5.
Household size
View on map →In Sherwood, the largest group is 1 person at 40%, followed by 2 people (33%) and 3 people (27%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 0% of the local total, a figure that is far below the 14.1% seen across Australia. Most families are couples with children, who account for 76% of the total.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sherwood, Couples with children is the majority at 83%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Sherwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13551/sherwood/topic/family-households