2.0 ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 97% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Macnamara · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Macnamara
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Macnamara than in the rest of the state. This is a small-household area where only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -28.6%
- 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 Macnamara — lower than 97% of areas.
| Macnamara | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes now make up 41.3% of all households, a figure that rose 23 points since 2011. This high number of solo dwellers helps explain why Macnamara has some of the lowest average household sizes in the region.
41.3% ▲ +120.6%
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Macnamara splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46.6% of families, while those without children account for 41.4%. One-parent families make up 10.0% of the total, which is well below both the Victorian and national figures.
10.0% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 95% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Macnamara, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Macnamara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED229/macnamara/topic/family-households