2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Foster · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Foster
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all families in Foster are couples with children, though the area is increasingly defined by smaller households. This is a place where a high number of people live alone, contributing to a typical home size that is smaller than the national figure.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Foster — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A high 34.2% of people live alone in Foster, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.1 people, a figure that is much lower than most areas and has edged down since 2011.
34.2% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Foster, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46% of families, while couples without children account for 42.6%. One-parent families make up 10.8% of the total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1% and has barely changed since 2011.
10.8% ▲ +2.2%
Lower than 72% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Foster splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 11%.
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 Foster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/205031087/foster/topic/family-households