2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Long Gully · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Long Gully
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Long Gully compared to the rest of the country. This trend contributes to a smaller typical household size than the national figure, with many residents living independently or in small family units.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Gully — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 36.3% of households, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This explains why the typical home here holds only 2.2 people, slightly lower than the Victorian average of 2.5.
36.3% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Long Gully splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are very common here at 31.7%, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children make up the largest family group at 39.2%.
31.7% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Long Gully, the largest group is Couples with children at 39%, followed by One-parent families (32%) and Couples without children (27%).
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 Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21534/long-gully/topic/family-households