2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Digby · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Digby
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of one-parent families than the national average defines Digby, where 28.9% of families fall into this group. This gap is a standout feature of the area, though the typical home still holds about 2.4 people, which is roughly the same as across Victoria and Australia.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Digby — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with 31.3% of households consisting of just one person. Two-person homes are the most frequent, making up 41.7% of all households.
31.3% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Digby, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 28.9% of the total, a figure far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria. Couples with children are the most common family type at 41.2%, followed by couples without children at 37.1%.
28.9% ▲ +737.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 28.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Digby splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (38%) and Couples without children (35%), with One-parent families at 27%.
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 Digby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20753/digby/topic/family-households