2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sutton Forest · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sutton Forest
How families and households are made up across the area.
Sutton Forest has far fewer single-person households and one-parent families than most similar areas. Most homes here are occupied by couples, with 2.5 people living in the typical house. This is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Sutton Forest — higher than 50% of areas.
| Sutton Forest | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2577, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all homes hold two people, while only 20.2% of people live alone. This rate of single-person households is well below both the New South Wales figure of 25% and the Australian average of 25.6%.
20.2% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sutton Forest, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families here, with 52.1% raising children and 39.9% without. Only 7% of families are headed by one parent, which is well below the national and state figures of around 14%.
7.0% ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sutton Forest, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 40%.
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 Sutton Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13718/sutton-forest/topic/family-households