2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Burwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Burwood are couples with children, making this the most common household type in the area. It is a place where the typical home holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
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 Burwood — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are more common here than in most areas, with 27.7% of people living alone. This is a little above the state and national figures, though two-person households are the most frequent at 30.6%.
27.7% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Burwood splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (28%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 14.1% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas and about the same as the national average. Couples without children account for another 26.2% of families.
14.1% ▲ +8.1%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Burwood, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Burwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20426/burwood/topic/family-households