3.0 —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lilliput · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lilliput
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large households are the norm in Lilliput, where the typical home holds 3.0 people. This is much higher than most similar areas, creating a local landscape dominated by larger family groups rather than single occupants.
3.0
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- 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 Lilliput — higher than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 3.0 people per home, Lilliput is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Very few people live alone here—just 10.7%—which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
10.7% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lilliput splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 4 people (33%), with 1 person at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 76.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.6%, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and national averages.
9.6% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lilliput, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next 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 Lilliput [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21503/lilliput/topic/family-households