2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Avoca · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Avoca
How families and households are made up across the area.
A high number of single-person homes shapes daily life in Avoca, where over a third of households consist of just one person. This makes the area stand out compared to the rest of the country, as homes here are generally smaller than the national typical.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Avoca — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 35.6% of people live alone, which is far above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Avoca has only 2.2 people, a little below the Victoria and national figure of 2.5.
35.6% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Avoca splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (36%), with 4 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 15.8% of the community, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure of 14.1%. Most other families are couples, with 45.4% raising children and 37.1% without.
15.8% ▲ +20.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Avoca, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Avoca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20087/avoca/topic/family-households