2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Giffard · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Giffard
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than one in five families in Giffard are led by a single parent, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This stands out in a community where the typical household size of 2.6 people is about the same as the national figure.
2.6
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- 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 Giffard — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 26% of people here live alone, which is around the middle for its level and consistent with the Victorian average. The rest of the homes are mostly split between two-person and three-person households, each making up 29.6% of the total.
25.9% —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Giffard splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 3 people (35%), with 1 person at 30%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This is a significant gap compared to the state, where the figure is 13.3%.
20.0% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Giffard, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Giffard [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20992/giffard/topic/family-households