2.9 ▼ -9.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Attwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Attwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes and more family-based living have become more common in Attwood since 2011. The area is now defined by a high number of couples with children, with the typical home holding nearly three people.
2.9
▼ -9.4%
- 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 Attwood — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Crowded homes are common here, with 2.9 people per household, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the fact that only 16.6% of people live alone, a figure well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
16.6% ▲ +23.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Attwood splits fairly evenly between 4 people (27%) and 2 people (27%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 72.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10.0% of the total, which is well below both the Victorian and national figures.
10.0% ▲ +9.1%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Attwood, Couples with children is the majority at 73%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Attwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20082/attwood/topic/family-households