2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lillicur · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lillicur
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households and one-parent families are much more common in Lillicur than in other similar areas. This shapes daily life in the area, where nearly 31% of homes are occupied by just one person. The community also has a very high proportion of single parents compared to the rest of the country.
2.3
—
- 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 Lillicur — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with 2.3 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 30.8% of people live alone, which is well above the Victorian rate of 25.9%.
30.8% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lillicur, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 6 or more (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 28.6% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.1%. Other family types include couples with children (40.5%) and couples without children (35.7%).
28.6% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Lillicur splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (39%) and Couples without children (34%), with One-parent families at 27%.
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 Lillicur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21501/lillicur/topic/family-households