2.9 → 0.0%
Higher than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Springvale · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Springvale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly three people live in the typical home in Springvale, which is much higher than most similar areas. This makes the suburb a place of larger-than-average households, where few people live alone and many more families live together.
2.9
→ 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 Springvale — higher than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 2.9 people live in each home, a figure that is a little above the Victorian and national averages of 2.5. Only 21.9% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
21.9% ▼ -0.5%
Lower than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Springvale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 1 person (22%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.3% of the community, which is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Most families here are couples with children, accounting for 57.3% of the total.
17.3% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Springvale, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children 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 Springvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/212041317/springvale/topic/family-households