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.
Toorak · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Toorak
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of Toorak households are people living alone, which is much higher than most other areas. This contributes to the area having smaller homes than the state and national norms, with the typical home holding just 2.1 people.
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 Toorak — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 35.1% of households consisting of one person—a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home size has edged down to 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
35.1% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 88% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Toorak splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.9% of families, while couples without children account for 39.5%. Only 10.3% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.3% ▲ +17.8%
Lower than 76% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Toorak, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (40%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Toorak [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206061138/toorak/topic/family-households