2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Blackburn South · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Blackburn South
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share each home in Blackburn South than in most similar areas. The typical home holds 2.6 people, while roughly 66% of households are couples raising children.
2.6
→ 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 Blackburn South — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 26.1% of residents live alone, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011. Two-person households are the most common, making up 28.2% of the total.
26.1% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 54% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Blackburn South splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 1 person (26%), with 4 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 11.3% of the area, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures. This is a decrease of 0.8 percentage points since 2011.
11.3% ▼ -7.0%
Lower than 68% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Blackburn South, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Blackburn South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/207031162/blackburn-south/topic/family-households