1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
St Leonards · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in St Leonards
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become the defining feature of St Leonards, where nearly 40% of residents now live alone. This is much higher than the national figure, contributing to a typical home having just 1.9 people.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Leonards — lower than 89% of areas.
| St Leonards | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2065, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 39.2% of households being single person—far above the 25.6% national average. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
39.2% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.0%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →St Leonards splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up nearly half of all families at 49.8%. One-parent families are less common here than in most areas, making up only 7.6% of families, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.6% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In St Leonards, the largest group is Couples without children at 50%, followed by Couples with children (41%) and One-parent families (8%).
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 Leonards [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13657/st-leonards/topic/family-households