1.8 —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Chewton Bushlands · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Chewton Bushlands, where 45.8% of homes are occupied by just one person. This makes the area far more likely to have single-person households than the rest of Victoria or Australia.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Chewton Bushlands — lower than 91% of areas.
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 45.8% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the typical home has only 1.8 people, which is well below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5.
1.8 —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
45.8% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Chewton Bushlands, 1 person is the majority at 52%; 2 people is next at 33%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 62.5%. In contrast, there are no one-parent families in the area, a figure far below the 14.1% national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Chewton Bushlands, Couples without children is the majority at 74%; Couples with children is next at 26%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Chewton Bushlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20548/chewton-bushlands/topic/family-households