2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 79% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Evelyn · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Mount Evelyn
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are a defining feature of daily life in Mount Evelyn, where 2.8 people live in the typical home. This is much higher than in most other areas, reflecting a community where family living is far more common than living alone.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Mount Evelyn — higher than 79% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 18.1% of residents live by themselves, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes here are larger than usual, though the number of people per house has edged down slightly since 2011.
18.1% ▲ +5.4%
Lower than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Evelyn, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 66.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, at 10.2%, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
10.2% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Evelyn, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Mount Evelyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/211051283/mount-evelyn/topic/family-households