2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Amphitheatre · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Amphitheatre
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes are a standout feature of Amphitheatre, where people live in much smaller groups than the state or national average. Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the figure for Victoria and Australia. This trend is driven by a very high number of people living on their own.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Amphitheatre — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 41.7% of people here live alone, a rate far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. Consequently, the typical home is much smaller than most areas, with 40.8% of households containing two people and only 11.7% holding four.
41.7% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Amphitheatre splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (40%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 45.5%. One-parent families account for 7.8% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.8% ▼ -10.2%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Amphitheatre, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (43%) and One-parent families (8%).
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 Amphitheatre [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20041/amphitheatre/topic/family-households