2.9 —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fairbank · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fairbank
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger home sizes define daily life in Fairbank, where typical households are bigger than across the state. With a strong prevalence of couples raising children, the area's family structures differ notably from the national pattern.
2.9
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- 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 Fairbank — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than in most areas, with 2.9 people per home. This is a little above the typical figures for both Victoria and Australia, which sit at 2.5.
Household size
View on map →Fairbank splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 5 people (36%), with 1 person at 27%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 76.3%. This helps explain why one-parent families are much less common here at 7.9%, a figure well below the national average of 14.1%.
7.9% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fairbank, Couples with children is the majority at 76%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
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 Fairbank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20900/fairbank/topic/family-households