3.1 ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ceres · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ceres
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become more common in Ceres over the last decade. This is a family-focused area where 75.6% of families are couples with children, and the typical home holds 3.1 people.
3.1
▲ +3.3%
- 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 Ceres — higher than 88% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Ceres has some of the highest household sizes for its area, with 3.1 people per home, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the low number of people living alone (20.7%), a figure well below the Victorian average.
20.7% ▲ +16.7%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ceres, the largest group is 2 people at 28%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 5 people (22%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life here is dominated by couples with children, who make up 75.6% of families. This helps explain why one-parent families are much lower than most areas at 5.7%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
5.7% ▼ -40.1%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ceres, Couples with children is the majority at 76%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Ceres [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20527/ceres/topic/family-households