1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 95% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3003, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3003, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person living has jumped 13 percentage points since 2011 in postcode 3003. This shift has left the area with a very small typical household size of just 1.9 people. It is now one of the places with the fewest people per home in the region.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 1.0: 3 areas
- 1.1: 1 area
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 1 area
- 1.4: 1 area
- 1.5: 4 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 16 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 61 areas
- 2.0: 101 areas
- 2.1: 182 areas
- 2.2: 257 areas
- 2.3: 365 areas
- 2.4: 338 areas
- 2.5: 338 areas
- 2.6: 233 areas
- 2.7: 223 areas
- 2.8: 157 areas
- 2.9: 127 areas
- 3.0: 75 areas
- 3.1: 49 areas
- 3.2: 40 areas
- 3.3: 13 areas
- 3.4: 10 areas
- 3.5: 6 areas
- 3.6: 3 areas
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 0 areas
- 4.2: 1 area
All postcode areas, 2021. The marker is 3003, VIC — lower than 95% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 40% of people here live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
39.0% ▲ +47.6%
Higher than 92% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →3003, VIC splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples without children at 54.4%. One-parent families make up 7.9% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.9% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 86% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 3003, VIC, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 3003, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3003/3003-vic/topic/family-households