2.1 ▲ +16.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dargo · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dargo
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than four out of ten people live by themselves in Dargo, making it a place where single-person households are far more common than in most areas. This trend results in a small typical household size of just 2.1 people, which is lower than the national figure.
2.1
▲ +16.7%
- 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 Dargo — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 40.5% of households consisting of one person—a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian average of 2.5.
40.5% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dargo splits fairly evenly between 2 people (44%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with children make up 45.3% of the area, while couples without children account for 42.7%. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, a figure that is far below the 14.1% national average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dargo, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 48%.
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 Dargo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20711/dargo/topic/family-households