2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3500, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3500, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in postcode 3500 are couples with children, making them the most common household type. While family sizes are typical for the region, there is a notably high proportion of people living on their own.
2.4
→ 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 3500, VIC — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 31% of people live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes house either one or two people, and the typical household size has barely changed since 2011.
31.0% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 70% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →3500, VIC splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.4% of the total, a figure that is well above both the Victorian and Australian averages. This proportion has remained steady since 2011.
20.4% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 3500, VIC, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 3500, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3500/3500-vic/topic/family-households