2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Armadale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Armadale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Armadale than in most similar areas, with nearly 40% of all households consisting of just one person. This contributes to a very small typical household size for the area, which sits well below the national and state figures.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Armadale — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home here, which is well below the Victorian and Australian figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the fact that 39.9% of residents live alone, a rate far above the national average.
39.9% ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Armadale splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.3% of families, while 38.3% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 11.6%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
11.6% ▲ +20.4%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Armadale, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Armadale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20066/armadale/topic/family-households