2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eskdale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eskdale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small, quiet households define daily life in Eskdale, where the typical home holds just 2.2 people. This is lower than the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community largely made up of couples and single residents.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Eskdale — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all homes (47.9%) are occupied by two people, while 27.1% of residents live alone. This proportion of single-person households is a little above the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
27.1% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Eskdale, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 1 person is next at 29%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families at 51.9%. In contrast, one-parent families are very rare here at 3.3%, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
3.3% ▼ -52.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eskdale, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 44%.
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 Eskdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20883/eskdale/topic/family-households