2.4 ▼ -7.7%
Lower than 57% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3596, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3596, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in postcode 3596 than in the rest of Victoria. While the typical home holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure, the area has a very high proportion of single-person households and one-parent families.
2.4
▼ -7.7%
- 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 3596, VIC — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 37.5% of residents live alone, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen since 2011. This means more than a third of all homes are occupied by just one person.
37.5% ▲ +19.1%
Higher than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →3596, VIC splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.2% of the area, which is well above the state and national figures. This proportion has risen by 9.5 percentage points since 2011.
19.2% ▲ +98.8%
Higher than 88% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →3596, VIC splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 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 3596, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3596/3596-vic/topic/family-households