2.4 ▼ -11.1%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Delacombe · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Delacombe
How families and households are made up across the area.
Recent shifts in home life have seen Delacombe become a place where one-parent families are now far more common than in other similar areas. While most homes follow a typical pattern, about 23% of families are led by a single parent, which is well above the national figure.
2.4
▼ -11.1%
- 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 Delacombe — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 26.4% of people in Delacombe live alone, a figure that is higher than most areas. The typical home holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the Victorian and Australian averages.
26.4% ▲ +20.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Delacombe, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23% of the total, a rate well above both the state (13.3%) and national (14.1%) figures. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 27.6% are couples without children.
23.0% ▲ +14.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Delacombe, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (28%) and One-parent families (23%).
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 Delacombe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20730/delacombe/topic/family-households