2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greater Dandenong · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Greater Dandenong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Greater Dandenong than in most other areas. This is a place where larger households are the norm, with an average of 2.9 people per dwelling. This pattern is driven by a high number of families and very few people living alone.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Greater Dandenong — higher than 89% of areas.
| Greater Dandenong | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than usual, with the typical household holding 2.9 people. Only 22.3% of residents live alone, which is well below the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
22.3% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 85% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Greater Dandenong splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 1 person (22%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.6% of the total, a figure well above the state average of 13.3%. Most families here are couples with children, who account for 61.3% of the total.
16.6% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greater Dandenong, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Greater Dandenong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22670/greater-dandenong/topic/family-households