2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Loch · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Loch
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Loch compared to the rest of the state. While the typical home size matches national patterns, the area has a lower rate of people living alone than both Victoria and Australia.
2.5
→ 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 Loch — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 2.5 people live in each home, which is about the same as the state and national figures. Only 22% of people live alone, a figure well below the Victorian average of 25.9%.
22.0% ▲ +4.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Loch, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 4 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.3% of families, while 43.5% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 8% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
8.0% ▼ -30.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Loch splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (44%), with One-parent families at 8%.
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 Loch [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21523/loch/topic/family-households