3.0 ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
East Hills · State Electorate
Family & Households in East Hills
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living together in East Hills than in 2011, with the typical home now holding 3.0 people. This makes it an area where large households are common and very few people live on their own.
3.0
▲ +3.4%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is East Hills — higher than 90% of areas.
| East Hills | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up just 19.1% of households, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the number of people per home is among the highest for similar areas at 3.0.
19.1% ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In East Hills, the largest group is 2 people at 27%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the biggest group of families at 65.5%. One-parent families account for 15.0%, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%.
15.0% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In East Hills, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; 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 East Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10027/east-hills/topic/family-households