2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greta South · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Greta South
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Greta South than in most similar areas, with the typical household holding 2.6 people. This is a place where families are the norm, and very few people live on their own.
2.6
▲ +8.3%
- 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 Greta South — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 17.8% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes are occupied by two people (31.1%), and the area has a higher number of people per home than most other areas.
17.8% ▼ -9.4%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Greta South, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 4 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families here at 62.8%. Only 5.3% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below both the Victorian (13.3%) and national (14.1%) averages.
5.3% ▼ -57.5%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greta South, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without 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 Greta South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21109/greta-south/topic/family-households