2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ironbark · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ironbark
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than four in ten people live alone in Ironbark, making it a place with a very high number of single-person households. This creates a smaller typical household size of 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Ironbark — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 40.4% of households consisting of just one person—a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. Because of this, the usual number of people per home is just 2.1, which is much lower than most similar areas.
40.4% ▲ +21.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ironbark, the largest group is 1 person at 40%, followed by 2 people (31%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.7% of the total, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%. Other family types include couples with children at 46.7% and couples without children at 30.7%.
20.7% ▼ -19.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ironbark, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (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 Ironbark [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21241/ironbark/topic/family-households