1.9 ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Abbotsford · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Abbotsford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Abbotsford than in most other similar areas. This makes it a place of very small households, where the typical home holds fewer than two people. The area is largely defined by a high number of single-person homes and couples without children.
1.9
▼ -17.4%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Abbotsford — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 40.7% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Abbotsford holds only 1.9 people, well below the Victorian average of 2.5.
40.7% ▲ +41.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Abbotsford splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families are couples without children, while one-parent families make up 8.3%. This last figure is well below both the state and national averages.
8.3% ▼ -26.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Abbotsford, Couples without children is the majority at 51%; Couples with children is next at 38%.
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 Abbotsford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20002/abbotsford/topic/family-households