2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brooklyn · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brooklyn
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Brooklyn are couples with children. This is a small-household area where a high number of people live on their own, resulting in a typical home size of 2.2 people.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Brooklyn — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A high 32.6% of people in Brooklyn live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home here has 2.2 people, slightly lower than the Victorian average of 2.5.
32.6% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brooklyn splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 14.7% of the local total, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and a little above the state average of 13.3%.
14.7% ▼ -34.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brooklyn, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 Brooklyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20352/brooklyn/topic/family-households