1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cann River · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cann River
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-four per cent of homes in Cann River are occupied by people living alone. This is a very high rate that helps explain why the area has some of the lowest household occupancy in the region.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Cann River — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds just 1.8 people, which is well below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This small home size is driven by the fact that 44.2% of households are single person, far above the national figure of 25.6%.
44.2% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.6%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cann River, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.1% of the local total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples without children are the most common family type at 42.3%.
26.1% ▼ -32.1%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.5%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cann River, the largest group is Couples without children at 41%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (25%).
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 Cann River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20464/cann-river/topic/family-households