1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Collingwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Collingwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Collingwood, where 42.6% of people live alone. This makes it a place of single-person homes far more often than in other parts of Australia. These figures mean the typical home here is much smaller than the state average.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Collingwood — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Just 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of people living alone, a figure that sits far above the national average.
42.6% ▲ +21.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Collingwood splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up half of all families here at 51.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families are much more common than in most areas, sitting a little above the national figure at 16.1%.
16.1% ▼ -34.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Collingwood, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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 Collingwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20616/collingwood/topic/family-households