2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hoppers Crossing · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hoppers Crossing
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes and more children have shaped the family life of Hoppers Crossing over the last decade. The area now sees more people sharing a roof than the national average, with a high number of couples raising children together. This has created a community where few people live by themselves compared to the rest of the state.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Hoppers Crossing — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A typical home here holds 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the fact that only 20.5% of people live alone, a figure well below the 25.9% seen across Victoria.
20.5% ▲ +20.2%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Hoppers Crossing, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 61.8% of families in Hoppers Crossing. One-parent families are also much more common here than in most areas, sitting at 16.0%, which is a little above the Australian average of 14.1%.
16.0% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hoppers Crossing, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Hoppers Crossing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21203/hoppers-crossing/topic/family-households