2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 79% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Broadmeadows · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Broadmeadows
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes and more children define daily life in Broadmeadows, where typical households are bigger than in most other areas. One in five families is headed by a single parent, reflecting a community with a higher proportion of large family units compared to the rest of the state.
2.8
→ 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 Broadmeadows — higher than 79% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than usual, with 2.8 people per household, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. This has barely changed since 2011, while about 25.1% of residents live alone, similar to the Victorian average.
25.1% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 50% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Broadmeadows splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 1 person (25%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 21.7% of the total, a figure well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. While this is much higher than most areas, the proportion has fallen slightly by 1.9 percentage points since 2011.
21.7% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Broadmeadows, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; One-parent families 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 Broadmeadows [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/210051242/broadmeadows/topic/family-households