2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
East Geelong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in East Geelong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Roughly 31% of people live alone in East Geelong, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This results in smaller typical households, with fewer people sharing a home compared to most other areas.
2.3
→ 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 East Geelong — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with 2.3 people per dwelling compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, while two-person homes are the most common at 35.5%.
30.9% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →East Geelong splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of families are couples with children, making up 55.4% of the total. One-parent families account for 11.9%, which is a little below the Victorian and Australian figures.
11.9% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In East Geelong, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 East Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20829/east-geelong/topic/family-households