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.
Cathcart · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cathcart
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much lower rates of single-person living mark Cathcart as an outlier compared to similar areas. Most homes here house two or more people, with a typical household size of 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures.
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 Cathcart — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 14.3% of people live alone, a figure that is far below the 25.9% seen across Victoria. Most households consist of two people (57.1%), while 28.6% have three people.
14.3% ▼ -38.5%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cathcart, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 3 people (22%) and 5 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up just 5.2% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. The most common family type is couples without children, accounting for 55.8% of families.
5.2% ▲ +5.5%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cathcart, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 39%.
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 Cathcart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20518/cathcart/topic/family-households