3.0 —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clarkes Hill · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Zero one-parent families make Clarkes Hill stand out as a very different place to the rest of the country. This is a family-focused area where the typical home is larger than usual, with an average of 3.0 people per household.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Clarkes Hill — higher than 86% of areas.
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than most, as the typical household has 3.0 people compared to 2.5 across Australia. Only 16.7% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
3.0 —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
16.7% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Clarkes Hill, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (16%) and 4 people (12%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 78.3%. This helps explain why there are no one-parent families in the area, a figure far below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Clarkes Hill, Couples with children is the majority at 78%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Clarkes Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20568/clarkes-hill/topic/family-households