1.4 ▼ -36.4%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.1
- 2021: 1.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dandenong South · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dandenong South
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live in each home in Dandenong South than in most similar areas. The area is dominated by single-person households, with 70.7% of homes housing just one resident. This makes it a very different living environment compared to the typical Victorian or Australian suburb.
1.4
▼ -36.4%
- 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 Dandenong South — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 70.7% of households, which is far above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Consequently, the typical home here has only 1.4 people, a number far below the national average of 2.5.
70.7% ▲ +39.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.7%
- 2016: 88.8%
- 2021: 70.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Dandenong South, 1 person is the majority at 75%; 2 people is next at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families in the area are couples without children, accounting for 68.3% of the total. One-parent families make up 12.2%, which is a little below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
12.2% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dandenong South, Couples without children is the majority at 74%; Couples with children is next at 13%.
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 Dandenong South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20709/dandenong-south/topic/family-households