2.7 ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Illowa · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Illowa
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Illowa than in most other areas, with only 13.4% of households consisting of one person. This creates a community where a large majority of homes are shared, contributing to a typical household size that is slightly larger than the national figure.
2.7
▼ -10.0%
- 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 Illowa — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than in most areas, with 2.7 people per household. This is consistent with the fact that nearly half of all households contain two people, while only 13.4% are single-person homes, a figure far below the Victorian average of 25.9%.
13.4% ▲ +29.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Illowa, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 3 people (15%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, who make up 88.3% of all households. This helps explain why one-parent families are less common here at 8.6%, which is well below the 14.1% national figure.
8.6% ▲ +227.3%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Illowa, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Illowa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21228/illowa/topic/family-households