2.0 ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
St Marys · Urban Centre
Family & Households in St Marys
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in St Marys (L), where people are far more likely to live alone than in most other areas. This shift is striking, with the number of single-person homes jumping 16 percentage points since 2011.
2.0
▼ -16.7%
- 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 St Marys — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, now accounting for 37.2% of all households.
37.2% ▲ +75.8%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →St Marys splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 46.1%, while one-parent families make up 15.4% of the total, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011.
15.4% ▼ -15.5%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In St Marys, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 St Marys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622023/st-marys/topic/family-households