2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gherang · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gherang
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Gherang than in most similar areas. This is a place where households are larger and single-person living is uncommon, with the typical home housing 2.8 people.
2.8
→ 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 Gherang — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than the national figure of 2.5 people. This is reflected in the low number of people living alone, at 16.9%, which is well below both the Victorian and Australian figures.
16.9% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gherang, the largest group is 2 people at 29%, followed by 4 people (23%) and 3 people (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 68.4%. This helps explain why one-parent families are uncommon here, at just 7.8%, which is well below the national average.
7.8% ▲ +96.0%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gherang, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Gherang
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Gherang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20989/gherang/topic/family-households