2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Geelong · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Geelong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small living arrangements define the daily life of Geelong, where nearly 40% of households consist of just one person. This makes the area feel very different from the typical Victorian suburb, as it is far more likely to be home to single dwellers than most other parts of the state.
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 Geelong — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 39.3% of households having only one person, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Consequently, the typical home in Geelong holds just 2.0 people, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
39.3% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Geelong splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47.7% of families, while 40.8% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 9.6% of the total, which is well below both the Victorian and national figures.
9.6% ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Geelong, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20973/geelong/topic/family-households