3.1 ▼ -8.8%
Higher than 91% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lysterfield · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Lysterfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few places at this level have larger households than Lysterfield, where families tend to be the norm. With a typical home holding 3.1 people, this area is much more focused on family living than the rest of the state.
3.1
▼ -8.8%
- 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 Lysterfield — higher than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 29.5% of households containing four people. Very few people live alone at 10.7%, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%.
10.7% ▲ +40.2%
Lower than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lysterfield splits fairly evenly between 4 people (29%) and 2 people (27%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 73.2%. One-parent families account for only 7.9% of the total, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and Australian averages.
7.9% ▲ +8.8%
Lower than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lysterfield, Couples with children is the majority at 73%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Lysterfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/211011255/lysterfield/topic/family-households