2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cardross · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cardross
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up a huge 65.4% of families in Cardross. This is a place where large households are the norm, with far fewer people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Cardross — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Cardross are typically larger than most, with an average of 2.9 people per dwelling. Only 16.8% of households are single-person, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
16.8% ▼ -33.6%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cardross, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
The majority of families here are couples with children. One-parent families make up 11.5% of the total, which is a little below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
11.5% ▲ +63.3%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cardross, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Cardross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20488/cardross/topic/family-households