2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Taren Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Taren Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Taren Point are couples with children. This is a community where single-person households are far more common than usual, while one-parent families are much less common than the national figure.
2.3
→ 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 Taren Point — lower than 71% of areas.
| Taren Point | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2229, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Taren Point is smaller than most, with 2.3 people per dwelling. This is partly because a high number of people live alone—31.4%, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25%.
31.4% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Taren Point, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 4 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 51.8% of families here, while couples without children account for 38.7%. Only 8.8% of families are one-parent households, a figure well below the 14.1% national average.
8.8% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Taren Point, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Taren Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13781/taren-point/topic/family-households