2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Footscray · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Footscray
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person living is much more common in Footscray than in most other areas. The area is defined by smaller households and a high number of people living on their own, which means fewer people share a roof compared to the rest of the state.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Footscray — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Roughly 38% of people here live alone, a figure far above the Victorian average of 26%. This helps explain why the typical home in Footscray has only 2.1 people, which is lower than the national figure of 2.5.
37.6% ▲ +16.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Footscray splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 42.9% of families, while one-parent families account for 14.2%. This last group is more common here than in most areas, though it remains about the same as the national rate.
14.2% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Footscray splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 Footscray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20935/footscray/topic/family-households