2.2 ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Guildford · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Guildford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller home sizes are common in Guildford (Vic.), where the typical household has only 2.2 people. This is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5, reflecting a place with more people living on their own.
2.2
▼ -12.0%
- 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 Guildford — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 30% of people here live alone, which is well above the 25.9% seen across Victoria. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 41.1% of all households.
29.8% ▲ +16.4%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Guildford, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 4 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20% of the total, a figure that is well above the 14.1% national average. Other families are mostly couples with children, who account for 45.8% of the mix.
20.0% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Guildford, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Guildford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21116/guildford/topic/family-households