2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brighton East · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brighton East
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share each home in Brighton East than in most similar areas. This is a family-focused community where nearly 68% of households are couples with children, making it much more likely for families to live here than in the typical Australian suburb.
2.6
→ 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 Brighton East — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.6 people, which is slightly higher than the national figure of 2.5. Two-person households are the most common at 29.6%, while 24.1% of residents live alone, a rate slightly below the Victorian average.
24.1% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Brighton East, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 4 people (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families here. In contrast, one-parent families account for 10.5% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.5% ▲ +3.5%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brighton East, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Brighton East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20338/brighton-east/topic/family-households