1.9 ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elmhurst · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Elmhurst
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 47% of people live alone in Elmhurst, a figure far above the national average. This makes it a place of very small households, where the typical home holds fewer people than most other areas in Victoria.
1.9
▼ -17.4%
- 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 Elmhurst — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 46.9% of residents living by themselves, the number of people per home is just 1.9. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, and it is among the highest rates of single-person homes at this level.
46.9% ▲ +49.1%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 46.6%
- 2021: 46.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Elmhurst, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (41%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of the families here at 52.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 7.9%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
7.9% ▲ +35.9%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Elmhurst, Couples without children is the majority at 51%; Couples with children is next at 42%.
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 Elmhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20861/elmhurst/topic/family-households