2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3121, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3121, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in postcode 3121 than in other parts of the country. Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend of smaller households has grown since 2011.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 3121, VIC — lower than 90% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, making up 38.2% of all households—a figure far above the Victorian average. This helps explain why the area has some of the lowest numbers of people per home across the region.
38.2% ▲ +18.0%
Higher than 91% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →3121, VIC splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 43.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 11.9% of the total, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011.
11.9% ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 54% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →3121, VIC splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 3121, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3121/3121-vic/topic/family-households