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.
Lakes Entrance · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lakes Entrance
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of people in Lakes Entrance live alone, making it an area with a high number of single-person households. This trend means that homes here are typically smaller than in other parts of the country, with only 2.1 people per dwelling.
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 Lakes Entrance — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in Victoria or Australia, with 38.2% of households consisting of one person. Because of this, the typical home size is a little below the national figure of 2.5 people.
38.2% ▲ +20.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lakes Entrance splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.5% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples without children are the most common family type at 41.1%.
18.5% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Lakes Entrance splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (41%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Lakes Entrance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21449/lakes-entrance/topic/family-households