2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cobden · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cobden
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 33% of people in Cobden live alone, a figure well above the national average. This reflects a housing pattern where homes are smaller, with fewer people living under one roof than in most other areas.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Cobden — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the high number of single-person households, which make up 33% of all homes.
33.0% ▲ +20.6%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cobden splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.4% of the total, which is well above the Victorian average of 13.3%. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 37.1% are couples without children.
16.4% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cobden, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Cobden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20591/cobden/topic/family-households