2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3527, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3527, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in postcode 3527, where the typical home holds just 2.0 people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting an area where a large number of residents live on their own.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 3527, VIC — lower than 90% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 35.9% of people live alone, which is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the number of people per home has edged down to 2.0 since 2011.
35.9% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 87% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 3527, VIC, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 44.4%. Meanwhile, the share of one-parent families has risen to 13.8% since 2011, a figure that is higher than most similar areas.
13.8% ▲ +40.7%
Higher than 63% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →3527, VIC splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 3527, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3527/3527-vic/topic/family-households