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.
3370, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3370, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of residents in postcode 3370 live alone, which is a much higher rate than most other areas. This creates a trend toward smaller households, where the typical home holds just 2.2 people. It is a place where single-person homes and couples without children are common.
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 3370, VIC — lower than 79% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 33.8% of households consisting of one person, a figure that has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.2 people is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
33.8% ▲ +10.4%
Higher than 81% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 3370, VIC, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.2% of the area, which is well above the Victorian average of 13.3%. While this figure fell slightly since 2011, one-parent homes remain much more common here than in most similar areas.
17.2% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 83% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →3370, VIC splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 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 3370, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3370/3370-vic/topic/family-households