3.4 ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cardigan · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cardigan
How families and households are made up across the area.
A massive gap exists between Cardigan and the rest of the country, with 3.4 people living in the typical home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is a place where large households are the norm and living alone is very rare.
3.4
▲ +3.0%
- 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 Cardigan — higher than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Cardigan has some of the highest household sizes in the region, with 19.9% of homes holding five people and 27.1% holding four. Only 7.8% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
7.8% ▼ -28.7%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cardigan splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 4 people (26%), with 5 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with children dominate the area, making up 80.3% of all households. In contrast, one-parent families account for only 3.1%, a figure far below the 13.3% average for Victoria.
3.1% ▲ +122.0%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cardigan, Couples with children is the majority at 80%; 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 Cardigan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20485/cardigan/topic/family-households