1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elwood · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Elwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Elwood are couples with children. This is a place where small households are the norm, with a very high number of people living alone compared to the rest of the state.
1.9
→ 0.0%
- 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 Elwood — lower than 96% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 44.2% of people in Elwood live alone, a figure far above the national average that has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home has only 1.9 people, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
44.2% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Elwood, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (33%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 50.5% of families, while those without children account for 36.6%. One-parent families represent 11.3% of the total, which is a little below the Australian figure.
11.3% ▲ +10.2%
Lower than 68% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Elwood, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Elwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206051129/elwood/topic/family-households