2.1 ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.6
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Genoa · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Genoa
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all households in Genoa are occupied by just one person. This makes it a place where single-person living is far more common than in the rest of Victoria, with the typical home holding only 2.1 people.
2.1
▲ +5.0%
- 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 Genoa — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 46.2% of people here live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. Because so many live by themselves or in pairs, the number of people per home is much lower than in most other areas.
46.2% ▲ +40.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Genoa, 1 person is the majority at 52%; 2 people is next at 48%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here. In contrast, one-parent families are rare, making up only 6.7% of the total, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
6.7% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Genoa, Couples without children is the majority at 61%; Couples with children is next at 32%.
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 Genoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20980/genoa/topic/family-households