2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Derrinallum · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Derrinallum
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Derrinallum than in most similar areas. The typical home holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This makes it a place of smaller households compared to the rest of the state.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Derrinallum — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 37.7% of people here live by themselves, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why homes are smaller, with 46.1% of households containing two people and 37.7% containing just one.
37.7% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Derrinallum, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 3 people (6%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47.7% of families, while couples without children account for 42.7%. One-parent families represent 7.3% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.3% ▼ -40.1%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Derrinallum splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Derrinallum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20745/derrinallum/topic/family-households