Children in apartments – where the bloody hell are they?
Greater Sydney, that’s where!
The Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Greater Sydney have dominated the children in apartments market in 2016.
The table below shows the top 10 LGAs with the highest concentration of families living in apartments.
LGA | Families in apartments as % of Total households |
Strathfield | 17.0% |
Botany Bay | 15.9% |
Willoughby | 13.4% |
Parramatta | 12.9% |
Canada Bay | 12.5% |
Lane Cove | 11.6% |
Georges River | 11.6% |
Rockdale | 11.6% |
North Sydney | 11.4% |
Randwick | 11.0% |
I was really surprised by these results. I had expected all the CBD LGAs (e.g. Sydney, Melbourne, Perth) to be in the top 10.
However, inner Sydney has the highest concentrations of children in apartments. It seems in Sydney, due to the types of housing being developed and affordability issues, apartment living seems to be the only option for families if they want to live 5-10km from the CBD.
So, what are the top LGAs in other states? The table below shows these results, which is a little less surprising.
State | LGA | Families in apartments as % of Total households |
Western Australia | Perth | 7.5% |
Victoria | Melbourne | 6.9% |
Northern Territory | Darwin | 5.9% |
South Australia | Adelaide | 3.6% |
Queensland | Cairns | 3.3% |
Tasmania | Brighton | 2.2% |
ACT | 1.9% |
If you’d like to find out how and where families in your LGA are living, we have updated the community profiles for all subscribed councils with fresh information from the 2016 Census.
Choose the ‘How do we live?’ menu in your community profile, and you’ll find updated information about households with and without children, housing tenure, loan and rental payments, dwelling types, number of bedrooms and more.
.id are population experts who analyse, enhance and present Census data using demographic web tools and through consulting services.
You can access our free community population profiles online to see how the results from 2016 Australian Census relate to your local area.
Hi Georgia, I’m having trouble making sense of this article. You use in the headline the words ‘Greater Sydney’ to describe where all the apartment-dwelling kids are, presumably referring to an area that includes the top ten LGA’s you list. Later you say that ‘inner Sydney has the highest concentration’ but unless you consider ‘inner Sydney’ and ‘Greater Sydney’ to mean the same thing, it doesn’t seem to make sense.
(copied from a debate on Paddy Corr’s Facebook posting in relation to this article over the weekend).
OK Fiona and Simone, I have reread and gained insight.
The term used in Georgia Allen’s article is the non-specific “inner Sydney” rather than the implied specific “Inner Sydney” but inviting confusion as to whether it is meant to be “City and Inner South (SA4)” or “Inner West (SA4) or “Inner South West (SA4)…
Hi,
Sorry but I am having trouble pulling out the figures you have quoted for the City of Ryde LGA.
Would you mind providing a step by step on how to figure out what % of children (also what age group?) live in apartments. I’d like to compare 211 and 2016.
many thanks