2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Edi Upper · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 30% of people in Edi Upper live alone, which is well above the national figure. This preference for smaller living arrangements means the area has fewer people per home than most other regions. It is a place where single-person households and couples without children are very common.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Edi Upper — lower than 71% of areas.
Average household size.
Typical homes in Edi Upper hold 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian average of 2.5. About 29.3% of people live alone, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
29.3% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Edi Upper, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (10%).
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 7.5% of the area, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%. Most families are couples, with 46.3% having no children and 43.8% having children.
7.5% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Edi Upper splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 8%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Edi Upper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20847/edi-upper/topic/family-households