2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swansea · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Swansea
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of residents live alone in Swansea, making it a place where small households are common. This is reflected in the typical home size, which is smaller than the national figure. The area is largely made up of two-person homes and single-person households.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Swansea — lower than 76% of areas.
| Swansea | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 2281, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People per home is 2.2, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.6. This trend is driven by a high number of people living alone, at 35.4%, a figure well above the 25.6% national average.
35.4% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Swansea splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.7% of the total, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.1%. Couples with children are the largest group at 41.1%, followed by couples without children at 36.4%.
20.7% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Swansea splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (36%), with One-parent families at 21%.
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 Swansea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13726/swansea/topic/family-households