2.7 ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Garvoc · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Garvoc
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Garvoc than in most similar areas. The community is largely made up of families with children, though about 28% of households consist of just one person.
2.7
▼ -3.6%
- 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 Garvoc — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 2.7 people per home, households here are larger than in most other areas and slightly above the national figure of 2.5. This is despite a higher-than-usual 27.8% of people living alone, which is a little above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
27.8% ▲ +40.4%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Garvoc splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 1 person (26%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 74%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.3%, which is a little below both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
11.3% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Garvoc, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
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 Garvoc [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20969/garvoc/topic/family-households