2.7 ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Drummond · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Drummond
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up a dominant 61.9% of families in Drummond. This is a place where most people live in larger groups, with far fewer single-person households and one-parent families than the national average.
2.7
▲ +8.0%
- 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 Drummond — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Drummond holds 2.7 people, which is higher than most areas. Only 16.7% of people live alone, a figure that is well below the national average of 25.6%.
16.7% ▼ -40.4%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Drummond, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (16%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up just 5.9% of the total, which is much lower than most areas and well below the 14.1% national figure. Most families here are couples, with 61.9% having children and 29.7% without.
5.9% ▼ -44.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Drummond, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Drummond [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20798/drummond/topic/family-households