2.3 —
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Pakenham - South East · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Pakenham - South East
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Pakenham - South East than in most similar areas. This trend helps explain why the typical home here holds fewer people than the state and national figures. One in three households consists of a single person.
2.3
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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 Pakenham - South East — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households make up 32.7% of the area, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Because of this, the usual home size of 2.3 people is a little below the national average of 2.5.
32.7% —
Higher than 83% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Pakenham - South East splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are much more common here than in most similar areas, sitting well above the national figure at 19.5%. Meanwhile, couples with children make up nearly half of all families at 49.5%.
19.5% —
Higher than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Pakenham - South East, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (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 Pakenham - South East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/212011551/pakenham-south-east/topic/family-households