3.0 ▼ -6.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eltham North · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eltham North
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing homes in Eltham North than in the past, with the typical household now holding 3.0 people. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5 and reflects a community where large family groups are the norm.
3.0
▼ -6.3%
- 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 North — higher than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than most, with only 9.3% of people living alone. This is far below the Victorian figure of 25.9%, while 31.7% of households consist of two people and 27.9% have four.
9.3% ▲ +2.4%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Eltham North splits fairly evenly between 2 people (32%) and 4 people (28%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 71.4% of families, which helps explain the larger household sizes. One-parent families account for 7.5%, a figure well below the national average of 14.1%.
7.5% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eltham North, Couples with children is the majority at 71%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20866/eltham-north/topic/family-households