2.6 ▼ -10.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
The Ridgeway · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in The Ridgeway
How families and households are made up across the area.
A stark gap exists between The Ridgeway and the rest of the country, where not a single person lives alone. This makes for a unique residential pattern in the area, with 2.6 people per home and a strong focus on multi-person households.
2.6
▼ -10.3%
- 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 The Ridgeway — higher than 57% of areas.
| The Ridgeway | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 2620 crosses NSW/ACT | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
No one lives by themselves here, a figure that is far below the national average of 25.6%. Most homes are occupied by two people (54.5%), while those with three or four people each make up 18.2% of households.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In The Ridgeway, 2 people is the majority at 60%; 3 people is next at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children and couples without children are equally common at 44.5% each. One-parent families make up 13.3% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the New South Wales figure.
13.3% ▲ +64.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →The Ridgeway splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 The Ridgeway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13852/the-ridgeway/topic/family-households