2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Leongatha North · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Leongatha North
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 63% of families in Leongatha North have children, making it an area where large households are common. It is a place where few people live alone and very few are raising children as a single parent.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 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 Leongatha North — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Leongatha North holds 2.6 people, which is higher than most similar areas. Only 22.2% of households consist of one person, a figure that is well below the national and state averages.
22.2% ▲ +51.7%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Leongatha North, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 5 people (23%) and 1 person (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up just 3.1% of the local total, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. Most families here are couples, with 63.3% having children and 30.5% without.
3.1% ▼ -55.6%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Leongatha North, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; 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 Leongatha North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21491/leongatha-north/topic/family-households