3.2 ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Puckapunyal · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Puckapunyal
How families and households are made up across the area.
Crowded homes are a defining feature of daily life in Puckapunyal, where the typical household holds 3.2 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5. The area is overwhelmingly dominated by families with children, leaving very few people living on their own.
3.2
▼ -5.9%
- 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 Puckapunyal — higher than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than usual, with 3.2 people per dwelling compared to 2.5 across Australia. This is reflected in the low number of people living alone, at just 6.4%, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%.
6.4% ▲ +115.7%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Puckapunyal splits fairly evenly between 2 people (29%) and 4 people (25%), with 3 people at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up a huge 79.7% of all families. Consequently, one-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, accounting for only 2.4% compared to the national figure of 14.1%.
2.4% ▼ -34.0%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Puckapunyal, Couples with children is the majority at 80%; Couples without children is next at 18%.
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 Puckapunyal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22124/puckapunyal/topic/family-households