2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Linton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Linton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of households in Linton are made up of people living alone, a figure well above the national average. This creates a smaller typical household size of 2.2 people, which is lower than in most other areas. The community is a mix of small households and family units.
2.2
→ 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 Linton — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 34.4% of homes containing just one person, far higher than the 25.6% seen across Australia. Two-person homes are the most frequent at 37.7%, while only 4.4% of households have five or more people.
34.4% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Linton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.4% of the community, which is much higher than in most similar areas and well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 34.9% are couples without children.
16.4% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Linton, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Linton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21514/linton/topic/family-households