2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hamilton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hamilton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of homes in Hamilton are occupied by people living alone, creating a distinct pattern of small households. This makes the area stand out compared to the rest of the country, where smaller living arrangements are much less common.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Hamilton — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.2 people live in the typical home, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, with 35.7% of residents living alone—far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
35.7% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hamilton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families here are couples with children, while 15% are one-parent families. This last figure is higher than in most similar areas and a little above the Victorian average of 13.3%.
15.0% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hamilton, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Hamilton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21129/hamilton/topic/family-households