2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Harston · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Harston
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the biggest slice of the pie in Harston, where 57% of families fall into this category. This creates a family-focused atmosphere where very few people live alone or raise children as single parents compared to the rest of the country.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Harston — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Most homes in Harston house two people, which is 44.4% of all households. Only 17.5% of people live alone, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and national averages of around 25%.
17.5% ▼ -23.3%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Harston, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (19%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families are rare here at just 3%, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%. The remaining families are mostly couples, with 40% having no children.
3.0% ▼ -80.3%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Harston, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 40%.
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 Harston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21144/harston/topic/family-households