2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Donald · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Donald
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households have become far more common in Donald since 2011. This shift is seen in the high number of people living alone, which now stands at 38.2%. This is much higher than the figures for most other similar areas.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Donald — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 38.2% of households containing just one person, which is far above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Because of this, the typical home in Donald holds only 2.1 people, a little below the national average of 2.5.
38.2% ▲ +19.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Donald splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families here are couples with children, while 36.5% are couples without. One-parent families make up 13.3% of the total, which is higher than most areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
13.3% ▲ +39.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Donald, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Donald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20770/donald/topic/family-households