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.
Carlton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Carlton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home than almost any similar area makes Carlton a place of small households. Nearly half of all residents live alone, which is far more common here than across the rest of the state.
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 Carlton — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households make up 45.3% of the total, a figure far above the Victorian average of 25.9%. This helps explain why the typical home in Carlton holds only 1.8 people, well below the national figure of 2.5.
45.3% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.4%
- 2016: 43.5%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Carlton, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 48.9%. One-parent families make up 14.6% of the area, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the state average.
14.6% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Carlton, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (29%) 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 Carlton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20495/carlton/topic/family-households