2.3 ▲ +21.1%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hotham Heights · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hotham Heights
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher proportions of people live alone in Hotham Heights compared to most similar areas. This is a small community where the typical home holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
2.3
▲ +21.1%
- 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 Hotham Heights — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 36.1% of all homes—far above the 25.6% national average. Two-person homes are the most frequent, accounting for 41.7% of the total.
36.1% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Hotham Heights, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 56.7% of families in the area. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, a figure far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 62.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hotham Heights, Couples without children is the majority at 63%; Couples with 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 Hotham Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21207/hotham-heights/topic/family-households