2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fairfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fairfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Fairfield than in most similar areas. This trend helps explain why the typical home here is smaller than the state and national average, with just 2.2 people per household.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Fairfield — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the 25.6% national average. Single-person homes are the most common, making up 38% of all households in the area.
38.0% ▲ +13.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Fairfield, the largest group is 1 person at 38%, followed by 2 people (29%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 60.2% of families, while those without children account for 28.9%. Only 9.6% of families are headed by one parent, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.6% ▲ +3.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fairfield, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20901/fairfield/topic/family-households