2.3 ▲ +15.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dinner Plain · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dinner Plain
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 32% of people in Dinner Plain live alone, which is well above the national figure. This gap helps explain why the typical home here has just 2.3 people, a little below the usual number for Victoria and Australia.
2.3
▲ +15.0%
- 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 Dinner Plain — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 32.5% of people live alone, a figure much higher than in most areas. Two-person households are the most common at 37.5%, while only 15% of homes have four people.
32.5% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 32.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Dinner Plain, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of the families here are couples with children, and 10% are one-parent families, which is well below the state and national figures.
10.0% ▼ -24.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Dinner Plain splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (44%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Dinner Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20760/dinner-plain/topic/family-households