2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Earlston · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Earlston
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live alone in Earlston than in most similar areas. This small community is largely made up of couples, with the typical home holding 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
2.3
—
- 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 Earlston — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Half of all households here consist of two people. Only 16.7% of residents live alone, a figure that is well below the Victorian average of 25.9%.
16.7% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Earlston, 2 people is the majority at 60%; 1 person is next at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families, with 43.9% being couples without children and 40.9% with children. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Earlston, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 48%.
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 Earlston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20826/earlston/topic/family-households