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Family & Households in Phillip

How families and households are made up across the area.

Far fewer people live in each home in Phillip than in most similar areas. This is a place where living alone is very common, with 44.3% of households consisting of just one person.

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📍 Phillip, Suburb / Locality

Where Phillip sits — Average household size

1.9 ▲ +5.6%
  • 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 Phillip — lower than 89% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Phillip1.9
2606, ACT 2.2
Australian Capital Territory 2.5
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

A typical home here holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This explains why the share of people living alone is far above the Australian Capital Territory average.

1.9 ▲ +5.6%

Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.8
  • 2016: 1.9
  • 2021: 1.9

Average number of people usually resident per household.

44.3% ▼ -5.0%

Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 46.7%
  • 2016: 45.5%
  • 2021: 44.3%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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In Phillip, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (12%).

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

Couples without children make up the largest family group at 45.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10.8% of the total, a figure that is well below the national average.

10.8% ▼ -0.1%

Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.8%
  • 2016: 9.9%
  • 2021: 10.8%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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Phillip splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 11%.

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 Phillip [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80110/phillip/topic/family-households