2.0 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Argyle · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Argyle
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Argyle than in the typical Victorian home, with 40.2% of households consisting of just one person. This trend makes Argyle stand out from both the state and national averages, resulting in a much smaller typical home size.
2.0
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- 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 Argyle — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home here, which is well below the national and state figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which make up 40.2% of the area.
40.2% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Argyle splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 41.1%, followed by couples with children at 36.7%. One-parent families make up 12.0% of the total, a figure slightly below the rest of Victoria and Australia.
12.0% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Argyle splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (39%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Argyle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20065/argyle/topic/family-households