2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Almurta · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
A typical household size for the region is found in Almurta, where most homes house two people. While the area is sparsely populated, it is mostly made up of couple-led households with no one-parent families recorded.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Almurta — lower than 57% of areas.
Average household size.
About 2.4 people live in each home, which is about the same as the Victorian and national figures. More than half of all households consist of two people, while 24% of residents live alone.
2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
24.0% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Almurta, 2 people is the majority at 54%; 1 person is next at 23%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 56.9% of families here. In a stark contrast to the rest of the country, there are no one-parent families in Almurta, a figure far below the national average of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Almurta, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 41%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Almurta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20033/almurta/topic/family-households