2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Heidelberg Heights · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Heidelberg Heights
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Heidelberg Heights than in most similar areas. This trend contributes to a lower overall number of people per home, with the typical household containing just 2.3 residents.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 Heidelberg Heights — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 30.7% of people here live alone, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller than the national figure, with 34.4% of households containing only two people.
30.7% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Heidelberg Heights splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.2% of the area, a figure that is much higher than most other areas and well above the 14.1% national average. Most other families are couples with children, who account for 52.7% of the total.
17.2% ▼ -14.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Heidelberg Heights, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21168/heidelberg-heights/topic/family-households