2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fawcett · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fawcett
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are common in Fawcett, where more than a third of residents live alone. This makes it a very different place to the state and national averages, with a typical home holding just 2.3 people.
2.3
—
- 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 Fawcett — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in other areas, making up 36.4% of households. This is far above the Victorian figure of 25.9% and helps explain why home sizes are a little below the national average.
36.4% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fawcett splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (31%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.8% of families, while those without children account for 34.2%. There are no one-parent families in the area, a figure far below the national average of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fawcett, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 38%.
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 Fawcett [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20908/fawcett/topic/family-households