2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Chiltern · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Chiltern
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over five per cent more people live alone in Chiltern than in the typical Victorian home. This gap helps explain why the area has smaller households, with a typical 2.3 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5.
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 Chiltern — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 31.2% of residents live by themselves, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person households are the most common at 40.5%, while larger homes with five people are rare at only 3.5%.
31.2% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 31.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Chiltern, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52% of families here, while those without children account for 35.2%. One-parent families make up 11.6% of the total, a figure that is a little below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
11.6% ▼ -12.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Chiltern, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Chiltern [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20551/chiltern/topic/family-households