2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3196, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3196, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller households are the norm in postcode 3196, where nearly a third of residents live alone. This makes the area's typical home size smaller than both the state and national figures. It is a community where single-person living is far more common than in most other areas.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 3196, VIC — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 31% of people live by themselves, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because so many live alone or in pairs, the typical home here has 2.3 people, slightly lower than the Victorian average of 2.5.
31.0% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 70% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →3196, VIC splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, who make up 58.3% of the total. One-parent families account for 14% of the mix, a figure that is higher than most areas but about the same as the state and national averages.
14.0% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 65% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 3196, VIC, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 3196, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3196/3196-vic/topic/family-households