2.0 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Graytown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Graytown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Graytown than in most similar areas. This trend is a key feature of the local housing landscape, with over 40% of households consisting of just one person. Consequently, the typical home here is much smaller than those in the rest of the state.
2.0
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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 Graytown — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high proportion of single-person households, at 40.6%, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%.
40.6% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Graytown splits fairly evenly between 1 person (45%) and 2 people (41%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 40.5%, followed by couples with children at 38.1%. One-parent families make up 11.9% of the total, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.9% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Graytown splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Graytown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21094/graytown/topic/family-households