2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eureka · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eureka
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Eureka consist of a single person. This is a small area where one-person homes are far more common than in the rest of the state, creating a community with a smaller typical household size.
2.2
→ 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 Eureka — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Eureka has 2.2 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 36.8% of people live alone, a rate far above the national average of 25.6%.
36.8% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Eureka splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.7% of the area, which is among the highest for similar places and far above the national figure of 14.1%. Other family types include couples with children at 45.8% and couples without children at 28.5%.
26.7% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eureka, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (28%) and One-parent families (26%).
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 Eureka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20891/eureka/topic/family-households