2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mallee · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Mallee
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over 6 percentage points more people live alone in Mallee than the national figure. This high number of single-person homes means households are smaller here than in most other areas. The typical home now holds 2.3 people, which is a drop from 2.5 back in 2011.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Mallee — lower than 86% of areas.
| Mallee | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Vic. | 2.4 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31.8% of residents live alone, a figure that is well above the Victorian average and has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the area has fewer people per home than most other places, with two-person households being the most common at 36.5%.
31.8% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 89% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mallee splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of all families are couples with children, though one-parent families make up 15.1%. This is a little above the state average and slightly higher than it was in 2011.
15.1% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 60% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mallee, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Mallee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED230/mallee/topic/family-households