2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cockatoo · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cockatoo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the majority of families in Cockatoo, where 65.7% of families fit this description. This focus on family life is reflected in the larger-than-usual home sizes. The typical household here is bigger than those found in most other areas.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Cockatoo — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Cockatoo are typically larger than the national figure, with 2.8 people per house. This helps explain why far fewer people live alone here compared to the rest of Victoria, at just 18.4%.
18.4% ▲ +10.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cockatoo, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 12.6% of the total, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas. This is about the same as the Victorian average, though it sits a little below the national rate.
12.6% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cockatoo, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Cockatoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20600/cockatoo/topic/family-households