2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Isaacs · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Isaacs
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Isaacs than in most similar areas. The community is dominated by family households, with 63.3% being couples with children. While some trends have shifted over the last decade, the typical household size has remained steady.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 2 areas
- 2.0: 1 area
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 3 areas
- 2.3: 23 areas
- 2.4: 27 areas
- 2.5: 26 areas
- 2.6: 22 areas
- 2.7: 16 areas
- 2.8: 8 areas
- 2.9: 9 areas
- 3.0: 5 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 2 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All federal electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Isaacs — higher than 57% of areas.
| Isaacs | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Most homes have two or three people, though 26.3% of residents live alone. This single-person rate is around the middle for its level and has risen slightly since 2011.
26.3% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 56% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Isaacs splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (26%), with 4 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 12.5% of the total, which is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure.
12.5% ▲ +33.1%
Lower than 72% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Isaacs, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Isaacs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED224/isaacs/topic/family-households