2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dartmoor · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dartmoor
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Dartmoor than in most similar areas. This trend means the typical home is smaller than usual, with only 2.1 people per household.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Dartmoor — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 36.9% of people live alone, which is far above the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why the typical home size is a little below the Australian and Victorian average of 2.5 people.
36.9% ▲ +24.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dartmoor splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of all families are couples without children, while 42.6% are couples with children. One-parent families make up 9.9% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.9% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dartmoor, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (41%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Dartmoor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20718/dartmoor/topic/family-households