2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alphington · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Alphington
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 30% of people in Alphington live alone, a figure well above the national average. This creates a varied living landscape where a large number of single-person households sit alongside the dominant group of couples with children.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Alphington — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Alphington holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the state and national figures. While 30.6% of households consist of two people, the high rate of people living alone (29.4%) is much higher than most other areas.
29.4% ▲ +6.9%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Alphington splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (29%), with 4 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children (61.5%), followed by couples without children (27.5%). One-parent families make up 10.2% of the total, which is well below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
10.2% ▲ +12.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alphington, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Alphington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20034/alphington/topic/family-households