2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Summer Hill · State Electorate
Family & Households in Summer Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of families in Summer Hill are couples with children. This is a place where smaller living arrangements are common, and a growing number of people live on their own.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Summer Hill — lower than 86% of areas.
| Summer Hill | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Small households are very common here, with the typical home holding 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure. This trend has grown since 2011, and 31.1% of people now live alone—a rate well above the New South Wales average.
31.1% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Summer Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54% of families, while couples without children account for 31%. One-parent families represent 13.2% of the total, which is about the same as the figures for both the state and the nation.
13.2% ▼ -16.5%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Summer Hill, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Summer Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10078/summer-hill/topic/family-households