1.8 —
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Southbank (West) - South Wharf · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Southbank (West) - South Wharf
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 43% of homes in Southbank (West) - South Wharf are occupied by people living alone. This makes the area far more likely to have single-person households than the rest of Victoria or Australia. The typical home is small, with only 1.8 people living in each.
1.8
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- 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 Southbank (West) - South Wharf — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are among the highest in the region at 43.3%, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home here has only 1.8 people, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
43.3% —
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Southbank (West) - South Wharf splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (41%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 56.1%. Meanwhile, one-parent families are much lower than most areas at 8.7%, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
8.7% —
Lower than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Southbank (West) - South Wharf, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 31%.
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 Southbank (West) - South Wharf [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206041508/southbank-south-wharf/topic/family-households