3.0 ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Liverpool · State Electorate
Family & Households in Liverpool
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than the national average define Liverpool, where the typical home holds 3.0 people. This is a family-heavy area with a notably high proportion of single-parent homes compared to the rest of the country.
3.0
▲ +7.1%
- 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 Liverpool — higher than 90% of areas.
| Liverpool | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Crowded living is common here, with an average of 3.0 people per home, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. This trend has edged up since 2011, while the number of people living alone is well below the Australian average at 21.3%.
21.3% ▲ +1.9%
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Liverpool splits fairly evenly between 2 people (24%) and 1 person (21%), with 4 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is diverse in Liverpool, where one-parent families make up 19.7% of the total—well above the New South Wales figure of 14.0%. Most families are couples with children, accounting for 64.9% of the total.
19.7% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Liverpool, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; 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 Liverpool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10046/liverpool/topic/family-households