2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Heidelberg · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Heidelberg
How families and households are made up across the area.
A much higher share of people live alone in Heidelberg compared to the rest of the country. This trend helps explain why households here are smaller than the national figure, with a typical home holding just 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Heidelberg — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33.4% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home in Heidelberg is smaller than in most areas, with 2.3 people per household.
33.4% ▲ +17.0%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Heidelberg splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (33%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 58.9% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10.5%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.5% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Heidelberg, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Heidelberg [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21167/heidelberg/topic/family-households