2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elsternwick · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Elsternwick
How families and households are made up across the area.
A third of all homes in Elsternwick are now occupied by people living alone. This shift has contributed to a smaller typical household size than what is usually seen across the state and nation. Most homes here house either one or two people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Elsternwick — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 33.5% of households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Elsternwick has 2.3 people, a little below the Victorian average of 2.5.
33.5% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Elsternwick splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (34%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 59.9% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.6%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
9.6% ▼ -2.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Elsternwick, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without 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 Elsternwick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20864/elsternwick/topic/family-households