2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fitzroy · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Fitzroy
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 39% of people in Fitzroy live alone, which is far above the national figure. This trend has grown since 2011, leaving the area with some of the smallest households in the region. Most homes here are occupied by just one or two people.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Fitzroy — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 38.3% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the typical home in Fitzroy has only 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian average of 2.5.
38.3% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fitzroy splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 45.5%. One-parent families account for 16.3% of the total, a figure that is well above the state average but has fallen since 2011.
16.3% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fitzroy, the largest group is Couples without children at 45%, followed by Couples with children (35%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Fitzroy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206071142/fitzroy/topic/family-households