2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Charlton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Charlton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Charlton than in most other Australian areas. This creates a distinct housing pattern where homes are smaller and contain fewer people than the state or national average. Roughly 37% of all households consist of just one person.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Charlton — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with a typical home holding only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person homes, which are far more common here than across Victoria.
37.1% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 38.4%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Charlton, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (37%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 44.1%. One-parent families account for 12% of the total, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
12.0% ▲ +20.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Charlton splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Charlton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20535/charlton/topic/family-households