2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fingal · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fingal
How families and households are made up across the area.
About half of all families in Fingal are couples with children. This makes it a key family area, though it has a much higher share of people living alone than most other parts of the country.
2.2
→ 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 Fingal — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Fingal are smaller than usual, with a typical 2.2 people per household. This is partly because 35.7% of people live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%.
35.7% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.0%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fingal splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 50.3% of families, while couples without children account for 35.1%. One-parent families make up 13.9%, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas.
13.9% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fingal, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Fingal
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Fingal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60200/fingal/topic/family-households