3.2 —
Higher than 94% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mernda - South · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Mernda - South
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family sizes have grown significantly in Mernda - South since 2011. The area now sees an unusually high number of people living in each home, with 3.2 people per dwelling compared to the national figure of 2.5.
3.2
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- 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 Mernda - South — higher than 94% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Very few people live alone here, at just 11.8%, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why homes are so crowded, with 26.9% of households containing four people.
11.8% —
Lower than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mernda - South splits fairly evenly between 4 people (27%) and 2 people (25%), with 3 people at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of the area at 71.6%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 13.0%, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian average.
13.0% —
Lower than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mernda - South, Couples with children is the majority at 72%; Couples without children is next at 15%.
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 Mernda - South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/209041532/mernda-south/topic/family-households