2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
St Albans · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in St Albans
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in St Albans than in the rest of the country. Nearly 40% of households consist of just one person, making this area stand out from the state and national patterns. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home here is smaller than usual.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 St Albans — lower than 81% of areas.
| St Albans | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2775, NSW | 2.0 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People per home is 2.1, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This is driven by 39.4% of people living alone, a rate far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
39.4% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →St Albans splits fairly evenly between 2 people (39%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 6.0% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. Couples with and without children are equally common here, each making up 45.3% of families.
6.0% ▼ -57.7%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →St Albans splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (47%), with One-parent families at 6%.
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 St Albans [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13645/st-albans/topic/family-households