2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kyvalley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Kyvalley
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing each home in Kyvalley than in most other areas, with the typical household now holding 2.8 people. This is a little above the Victorian and national figures, reflecting a community where larger living arrangements are common.
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 Kyvalley — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 38% of homes house two people, while only 19.3% of residents live alone. This lone-person rate is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
19.3% ▲ +18.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Kyvalley, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (19%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 65.8% of families here. This helps explain why one-parent families are much lower than most areas, sitting at just 4.7% compared to the national figure of 14.1%.
4.7% ▼ -33.5%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kyvalley, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Kyvalley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21416/kyvalley/topic/family-households