2.4 —
Lower than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Melton · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Melton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Melton are couples with children. This is a community where a high proportion of people live alone, but one-parent families are also far more common than in the rest of the state.
2.4
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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 Melton — lower than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33.1% of people in Melton live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Despite this, the typical home size of 2.4 people is about the same as the Victorian average.
33.1% —
Higher than 84% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Melton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (33%) and 2 people (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.4% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is among the highest proportions for this level of area.
24.4% —
Higher than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Melton, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by One-parent families (24%) and Couples without children (24%).
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 Melton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213041577/melton/topic/family-households