3.0 ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Prospect · State Electorate
Family & Households in Prospect
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share each home in Prospect than in most similar areas, with a typical household of 3.0 people. This trend has grown since 2011 and is mirrored by a sharp drop in the number of people living alone.
3.0
▲ +25.0%
- 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 Prospect — higher than 90% of areas.
| Prospect | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 17.1% of households are single-person homes, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%. Larger homes are common here, with 21.4% of households containing four people and 9.9% holding five.
17.1% ▼ -36.4%
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Prospect splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 4 people (21%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 68.3%. One-parent families account for 13.5%, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure.
13.5% ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Prospect, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Prospect [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10070/prospect/topic/family-households