2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fawkner · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fawkner
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing homes in Fawkner than in most other areas, with 2.8 people living in the typical household. This is a higher figure than the national average of 2.5. The community is dominated by families, especially those with children.
2.8
→ 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 Fawkner — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are often more crowded than elsewhere, with the typical house holding 2.8 people. While 24.4% of residents live alone, this is a little below the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
24.4% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Fawkner splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 1 person (24%), with 4 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 65.9%. One-parent families represent 14.1% of the total, which is a higher proportion than in most other similar areas.
14.1% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fawkner, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Fawkner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20909/fawkner/topic/family-households