2.5 ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Riverside · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Riverside
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living alone in Riverside than they were in 2011. This shift has seen the typical number of people per home rise to 2.5, with the area now having a very high proportion of families with children.
2.5
▲ +13.6%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Riverside — higher than 64% of areas.
| Riverside | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2444, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 13.5% of people live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6% and among the lowest for similar areas. Nearly half of all homes have two people, while the usual number of people per home has climbed from 2.2 in 2011 to 2.5.
13.5% ▼ -49.0%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Riverside, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 3 people is next at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.5% of families here. This helps explain why one-parent families are well below the national figure of 14.1%, falling from 18.0% in 2011 to just 6.5%.
6.5% ▼ -64.0%
Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Riverside, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Riverside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122115/riverside/topic/family-households