2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eltham · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eltham
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Eltham than in the rest of Victoria, as the area is dominated by larger households. This shift is seen in the typical home, which holds 2.8 people—a little above the national figure of 2.5.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Eltham — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33% of households have two people, while 22% have four, contributing to the larger home sizes seen here. Only 17.7% of residents live alone, which is well below the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
17.7% ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Eltham, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the area at 66.2%. One-parent families account for 10.2% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.2% ▲ +2.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eltham, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Eltham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20865/eltham/topic/family-households