1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Collingwood · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Collingwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 42% of households in Collingwood are made up of a single person, which is far above the national figure. This makes it an area of small households where many people live alone, with the typical home holding fewer than two people.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Collingwood — lower than 96% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 42.6% of homes, a figure that rose by 7.5 percentage points since 2011. This helps explain why Collingwood has just 1.9 people per home, which is well below the Victorian average of 2.5.
42.6% ▲ +21.3%
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Collingwood splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of local families are couples without children, making up 51.7% of the group. One-parent families account for 16.1% of the total, which is a little above the national figure, though this has fallen since 2011.
16.1% ▼ -34.4%
Higher than 72% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Collingwood, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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 Collingwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206071141/collingwood/topic/family-households