2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 96% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yarra · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Yarra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Yarra than in other parts of the state, with 36.9% of households consisting of just one person. This gap helps explain why the area has a very small typical home size of only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 1.0: 1 area
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 4 areas
- 2.0: 3 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 17 areas
- 2.3: 60 areas
- 2.4: 55 areas
- 2.5: 57 areas
- 2.6: 43 areas
- 2.7: 19 areas
- 2.8: 27 areas
- 2.9: 16 areas
- 3.0: 13 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 1 area
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
All sub-region (sa3) areas, 2021. The marker is Yarra — lower than 96% of areas.
| Yarra | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 36.9% of residents live alone, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is far above the national average. Most homes are small, with 37.3% holding two people and 36.9% holding one.
36.9% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 97% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Yarra splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children and couples without children both make up 43.0% of families here. One-parent families account for 11.6%, which is much lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011.
11.6% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 76% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Yarra splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Yarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20607/yarra/topic/family-households