1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Elwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Elwood, where 44% of people live on their own. This creates a distinct living pattern compared to the rest of the country, with very few large homes and a high number of single-person dwellings.
1.9
→ 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 Elwood — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With only 1.9 people per home, Elwood is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a very high proportion of people living alone, which is 18 percentage points higher than in Victoria.
44.0% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Elwood, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (33%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of all families here are couples with children, while couples without children make up 36.7%. One-parent families account for 11.2%, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.2% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Elwood, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Elwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20867/elwood/topic/family-households