2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hawthorn · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hawthorn
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller living arrangements define the daily life of Hawthorn, where nearly 4 in 10 people live alone. This makes the area much more likely to have single-person households than other similar places across Australia.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Hawthorn — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with just 2.1 people per dwelling compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 38.3% of people live alone, which is far above the Victorian average of 25.9%.
38.3% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hawthorn splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families in the area are couples, with 54% having children and 35.2% without. Only 8.5% are one-parent families, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
8.5% ▲ +8.6%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hawthorn, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Hawthorn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21152/hawthorn/topic/family-households