2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ellerslie · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ellerslie
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Ellerslie compared to the rest of the state. While most homes here are family-based, the typical household is slightly larger than the national figure. This creates a community where children and couples make up the vast majority of the population.
2.7
→ 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 Ellerslie — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 2.7 people live in each home, which is higher than in most areas. Roughly a quarter of the population (25.8%) live alone, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian and national averages.
25.8% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ellerslie splits fairly evenly between 1 person (27%) and 2 people (27%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 71.4% of families, while only 5.6% are one-parent families. This share of single-parent homes is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
5.6% ▼ -49.2%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ellerslie, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Ellerslie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20858/ellerslie/topic/family-households