2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Geelong West · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Geelong West
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Geelong West are occupied by a single person, making it a place where many people live alone. While couples with children are the most common family type, the area is marked by a much higher share of one-person homes than the state or national average.
2.2
→ 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 Geelong West — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 34.8% of people here live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home in Geelong West has 2.2 people, which is a little below the 2.5 seen across Australia.
34.8% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Geelong West splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 56.4% of families, while one-parent families account for 13.4%. This share of single-parent households is higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the Victorian average.
13.4% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Geelong West, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20974/geelong-west/topic/family-households