2.5 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mitcham · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Mitcham
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family arrangements in Mitcham (Vic.) have remained remarkably steady over the last decade. Most notably, the number of one-parent families has fallen slightly to 10.6%, which is now well below the national figure. These stable trends reflect a community where household sizes and living patterns have barely shifted since 2011.
2.5
→ 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 Mitcham — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A typical home in Mitcham has 2.5 people, which is about the same as the Victorian and national figures. About 25.3% of people live alone, a proportion that has barely changed in ten years.
25.3% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 50% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mitcham, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 4 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 62.9%. One-parent families account for 10.6% of the total, a figure that is lower than most areas and slightly below the state average.
10.6% ▼ -7.4%
Lower than 74% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mitcham, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Mitcham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/211041270/mitcham/topic/family-households