1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 95% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3520, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3520, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all households in postcode 3520 are made up of just one person. This is a strikingly high figure compared to the rest of the country, resulting in a very small typical household size for the area.
1.9
→ 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 3520, VIC — lower than 95% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Just 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the 50.7% of people living alone, a figure that has risen by 11 percentage points since 2011.
50.7% ▲ +26.8%
Higher than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 40.0%
- 2016: 44.2%
- 2021: 50.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 3520, VIC, the largest group is 1 person at 49%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 4 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.2% of the area, which is far above the 14.1% national figure. This has increased by 5.6 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children now account for 39.6% of families.
24.2% ▲ +29.9%
Higher than 96% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →3520, VIC splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (36%) and Couples without children (34%), with One-parent families at 22%.
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 3520, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3520/3520-vic/topic/family-households