1.7 ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.6
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Loch Sport · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Loch Sport
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few areas like Loch Sport have such a high proportion of small households. The town is mostly made up of very small homes, with a typical resident living with just one other person or alone.
1.7
▼ -5.6%
- 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 Sport — lower than 94% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 46% of people live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Loch Sport has only 1.7 people, well below the Victorian average of 2.5.
45.9% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 48.5%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Loch Sport splits fairly evenly between 2 people (46%) and 1 person (46%), with 3 people at 6%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 67.5%. One-parent families account for 13.5% of the total, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the state average.
13.5% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Loch Sport, Couples without children is the majority at 67%; Couples with children is next at 17%.
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 Sport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21524/loch-sport/topic/family-households