2.8 ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ku-ring-gai · State Electorate
Family & Households in Ku-ring-gai
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Ku-ring-gai than in most other areas, with 19.2% of households consisting of a single person. This place is dominated by larger family groups, which has pushed the typical number of people per home up to 2.8 since 2011.
2.8
▲ +12.0%
- 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 Ku-ring-gai — higher than 79% of areas.
| Ku-ring-gai | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than most, with a typical size of 2.8 people. This is a rise from 2.5 in 2011, while the proportion of people living alone has dropped to 19.2%, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
19.2% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ku-ring-gai, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 67.8%. Only 9.5% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is among the lowest at this level and well below the New South Wales average of 14.0%.
9.5% ▼ -40.2%
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ku-ring-gai, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Ku-ring-gai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10041/ku-ring-gai/topic/family-households