2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Homewood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Homewood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Homewood than in most other parts of the country. This small community shows a distinct split between couples with children and a high number of people living on their own. While the typical home size matches the national figure, the family structures here differ sharply from the state average.
2.4
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- 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 Homewood — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 29.2% of people live alone in Homewood, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. The usual home has 2.4 people, a number about the same as the rest of Victoria.
29.2% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Homewood splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 4 people (30%), with 1 person at 26%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
There are no one-parent families in Homewood, a figure far below the 14.1% national average. Most families are couples, with 63.0% having children and 37.0% without.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Homewood, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Homewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21200/homewood/topic/family-households