2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carlton North · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Carlton North
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a quarter of homes in Carlton North are occupied by people living alone. This high number of single-person households means homes here are generally smaller than in other areas. The typical home holds just 2.3 people.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 Carlton North — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 27.2% of residents live alone, which is a little above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical household size is only 2.3 people, a little below the Victorian average of 2.5.
27.2% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Carlton North, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (27%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.9% of families, while those without children account for 42.6%. Only 9.7% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.7% ▼ -16.9%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Carlton North splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20496/carlton-north/topic/family-households