2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Addington · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller than typical homes define Addington, where a high number of single-person households stand out. The area has a low number of people per home compared to most other areas, with about 27% of residents living alone.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Addington — lower than 76% of areas.
Average household size.
Most homes here are small, with only 2.2 people per house, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This is reflected in the fact that 26.9% of people live alone, a rate slightly above the national figure.
2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
26.9% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Addington, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 4 people (17%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 43.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 6.8% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% national average.
6.8% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Addington splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (48%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 8%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Addington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20008/addington/topic/family-households