3.1 → 0.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Long Forest · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Long Forest
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing homes in Long Forest than in most similar areas. This is a family-heavy community where a typical home holds 3.1 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5.
3.1
→ 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 Long Forest — higher than 88% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 3.1 people per dwelling and very few people living alone. At only 11.1%, the rate of single-person households is far below the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
11.1% ▲ +22.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Long Forest, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (23%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 65.2%. One-parent families account for 10.6% of the total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.6% ▲ +35.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Long Forest, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Long Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21533/long-forest/topic/family-households