1.8 → 0.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
East Melbourne · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in East Melbourne
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small living arrangements dominate East Melbourne, where 43.2% of people live alone. This creates a community of mostly small households that is far different from the typical Victorian or Australian pattern.
1.8
→ 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 Melbourne — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With only 1.8 people per home, East Melbourne has some of the lowest occupancy rates in the region. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, as 43.2% of residents live by themselves.
43.2% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.1%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →East Melbourne splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (43%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family sizes are small here, and one-parent families make up just 6.4% of the total. This is well below both the state and national figures, while couples without children make up the largest group at 62%.
6.4% ▲ +20.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In East Melbourne, Couples without children is the majority at 62%; Couples with children is next at 29%.
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 Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20830/east-melbourne/topic/family-households