2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Foster · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Foster
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of people in Foster live alone, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area's homes much smaller than usual, with only 2.0 people per home compared to the 2.5 seen across Australia.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Foster — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are among the highest for this level at 40.6%, which is 15 points higher than the Victoria and Australia figures. This helps explain why the typical home is much smaller than in most other areas.
40.6% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Foster splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 47.4%. One-parent families represent 12.5% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas but slightly below the national figure.
12.5% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Foster, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Foster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20940/foster/topic/family-households