2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elmore · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Elmore
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 39% of households in Elmore consist of just two people, making them the most common living arrangement. The area has a high proportion of people living alone and a typical home size that is smaller than the national figure. This makes Elmore's household structure quite different from most other similar areas.
2.1
→ 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 Elmore — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with a typical home holding 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures. This is partly because 38.1% of people live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
38.1% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Elmore splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parents make up 18.8% of families in Elmore, which is well above the 14.1% national average. Other family types are common too, with 42.1% of families being couples with children and 38.1% being couples without children.
18.8% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Elmore splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 19%.
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 Elmore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20862/elmore/topic/family-households