1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Docklands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Docklands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live in each home in Docklands than the state or national average. This is a place of small households, where nearly 40% of residents live alone. It is characterized by a high number of single-person homes and couples without children.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Docklands — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has only 1.8 people, which is well below the Victorian and Australian figures of 2.5. This is driven by a very high proportion of people living alone—39.4%, which is far above the national rate and has risen since 2011.
39.4% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Docklands splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up a majority of families at 55.8%. One-parent families are much less common here than in most other areas, sitting at 6.8%, which is well below the state and national figures.
6.8% ▼ -10.3%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Docklands, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Docklands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206041118/docklands/topic/family-households