2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 79% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3272, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3272, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are far more common in postcode 3272 than in most similar areas. This is a place where many people live alone and homes are generally smaller, with a typical household of just 2.2 people.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 3272, VIC — lower than 79% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Around 34% of people here live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6% and has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the number of people per home is a little below the Victorian average.
34.0% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 82% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →3272, VIC splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.2% of the area, a figure well above the state and national averages. This has risen by 4.1 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children remain the most common group at 44.6%.
17.2% ▲ +31.4%
Higher than 82% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 3272, VIC, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 3272, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3272/3272-vic/topic/family-households