1.9 ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Jamieson · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Jamieson
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Jamieson, where 40.3% of people live alone. This high number of single-person homes means the area has far fewer people per house than the state or national average. It is a place where small, independent living is very common.
1.9
▲ +5.6%
- 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 Jamieson — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Just 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a very high proportion of people living alone, at 40.3%, which is far above the Victorian average of 25.9%.
40.3% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Jamieson, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (39%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 62.6%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 9.2% of the total, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
9.2% ▲ +45.1%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Jamieson, Couples without children is the majority at 64%; Couples with 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 Jamieson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21253/jamieson/topic/family-households