2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cardinia · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Cardinia
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 64.1% of families in Cardinia, the dominant household type for the area. This is a place where larger homes are common, with far fewer people living alone compared to the rest of the state.
2.8
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Cardinia — higher than 87% of areas.
| Cardinia | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than most, with a typical size of 2.8 people. This is consistent with the fact that only 19.3% of people live alone, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%.
19.3% ▲ +4.7%
Lower than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cardinia, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 13.6% of the total, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia. This group has grown slightly by 0.8 percentage points since 2011.
13.6% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cardinia, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Cardinia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21450/cardinia/topic/family-households