2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Latrobe · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Latrobe
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Latrobe are couples with children. While this is the most common arrangement, the area has a notably high number of people living alone and single-parent families compared to the rest of the state.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Latrobe — lower than 71% of areas.
| Latrobe | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Vic. | 2.4 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.2% of people here live alone, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. This rise in single-person homes helps explain why the typical home size has edged down to 2.3 people.
32.2% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Latrobe splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.6% of the total, a figure that is well above the national average of 14.1%. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011.
18.6% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Latrobe, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Latrobe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA23810/latrobe/topic/family-households