3.3 ▲ +13.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cranbourne East · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cranbourne East
How families and households are made up across the area.
A typical home in Cranbourne East holds 3.3 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. This is a place where large households are the norm and very few people live on their own. The high number of residents per home reflects a strong presence of families with children.
3.3
▲ +13.8%
- 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 Cranbourne East — higher than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 14.1% of people here live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia. Larger homes are common, with 25.6% of households containing four people and another 11.3% holding five.
14.1% ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cranbourne East splits fairly evenly between 4 people (26%) and 2 people (22%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 73.6% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 11.6%, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.6% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cranbourne East, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 14%.
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 Cranbourne East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20663/cranbourne-east/topic/family-households