3.1 ▲ +6.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brookfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brookfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large family homes define daily life in Brookfield, where the typical household is bigger than in most areas. With 3.1 people per home, this is a little above the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
3.1
▲ +6.9%
- 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 Brookfield — higher than 88% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 25.9% of households holding two people and 19.3% holding four. This helps explain why only 18.1% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
18.1% ▲ +14.8%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Brookfield, the largest group is 2 people at 26%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 1 person (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 66.5%. One-parent families are much more common here than in most areas, making up 16.1% of the total, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
16.1% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brookfield, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; 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 Brookfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20351/brookfield/topic/family-households