2.1 —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Summer Hill · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
A high proportion of single-person homes defines Summer Hill, where 34.2% of households consist of just one person. This is well above the national figure and reflects a trend toward smaller living arrangements in the area. Most homes here are small, with the typical household containing only 2.1 people.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Summer Hill — lower than 81% of areas.
| Summer Hill | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2130, NSW | 2.1 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
One-person households are much more common here than in most areas, making up 34.2% of the total. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.1 people is a little below the New South Wales average of 2.6.
2.1 —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
34.2% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Summer Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 15%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families in the area are couples with children, while 33.5% are couples without. One-parent families make up 11.8% of the total, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.8% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Summer Hill, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Summer Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13702/summer-hill/topic/family-households