3.2 ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fairfield · State Electorate
Family & Households in Fairfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 63.9% of families in Fairfield, marking it as a place with very large households. Most homes here are crowded compared to the rest of the country, with a typical home holding 3.2 people.
3.2
▲ +6.7%
- 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 Fairfield — higher than 99% of areas.
| Fairfield | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Fairfield are well above the national figure of 2.5 people, and this number has edged up since 2011. This is reflected in the low number of people living alone, at 19.7%, which is well below the New South Wales figure.
19.7% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fairfield splits fairly evenly between 2 people (24%) and 1 person (20%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.0% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. This proportion has barely changed since 2011.
20.0% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fairfield, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; One-parent families is next at 20%.
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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10029/fairfield/topic/family-households