1.9 —
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
West Melbourne - Residential · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in West Melbourne - Residential
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 39% of people live alone in West Melbourne - Residential, which is far above the national figure. This high number of single-person homes means the area has some of the lowest household sizes across the region.
1.9
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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 West Melbourne - Residential — lower than 96% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds just 1.9 people, well below the Victorian average of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 38.3% of households are single people, while 41.2% consist of two people.
38.3% —
Higher than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →West Melbourne - Residential splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families at 53.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.2%, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.2% —
Lower than 92% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In West Melbourne - Residential, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 35%.
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 West Melbourne - Residential [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206041510/west-melbourne-residential/topic/family-households