2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Iona · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Iona
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Iona, where 2.8 people live in the typical home. This trend is reflected in a very low number of people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
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 Iona — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 15.2% of people live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home holds 2.8 people, a little above the 2.5 seen across Victoria and Australia.
15.2% ▼ -31.9%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Iona, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 1 person (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 62.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.5%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
9.5% ▲ +15.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Iona, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Iona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21238/iona/topic/family-households