2.8 —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Springfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Springfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living in each home since 2011, making Springfield a place of larger households. This shift is seen in the typical home size of 2.8 people, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.8
—
- 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 Springfield — higher than 76% of areas.
| Springfield | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2250, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Few people live on their own here, with only 19.5% of households consisting of one person, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%. This contributes to the fact that 31.6% of homes hold two people, while 20.3% hold four.
19.5% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Springfield, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.1% of the area, which is much higher than most similar places and well above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%. Most families are couples with children, accounting for 60.9% of the total.
17.1% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Springfield, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Springfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13639/springfield/topic/family-households