2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Surf Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Surf Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become a defining feature of Surf Beach. The area is now dominated by two-person homes and people living alone, meaning the typical home here holds fewer people than most other parts of the country.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Surf Beach — lower than 81% of areas.
| Surf Beach | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2536, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.1 people live in the typical home, which is much lower than most areas. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, at 34.7%, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%.
34.7% ▲ +23.2%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Surf Beach, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 41.9%. One-parent families make up 16.9% of the total, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
16.9% ▼ -15.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Surf Beach splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (42%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families 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 Surf Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13712/surf-beach/topic/family-households