2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Chifley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Chifley
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Chifley than in most other similar areas. While the typical home holds 2.4 people, about 31% of households are single-person dwellings. This is well above the national and territory figures.
2.4
→ 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 Chifley — lower than 57% of areas.
| Chifley | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2606, ACT | 2.2 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31.0% of residents live alone, which is well above the 25.7% seen across the ACT. The rest of the homes are mostly split between two-person (29.8%) and three-person (17.2%) households.
31.0% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Chifley splits fairly evenly between 1 person (31%) and 2 people (30%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 57.2% of families here. One-parent families account for 11.5% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the ACT average and a little below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
11.5% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Chifley, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; 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 Chifley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80036/chifley/topic/family-households