2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Longwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Longwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Longwood than in most similar areas. This contributes to a smaller typical household size of 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
2.3
→ 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 Longwood — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are common here, making up 29.4% of the total. This is well above the state and national figures, and helps explain why the area has fewer people per home than most other places.
29.4% ▲ +30.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Longwood, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 44.7%, followed closely by couples without children at 42.2%. One-parent families account for 13.1% of the total, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas.
13.1% ▲ +55.8%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Longwood splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (41%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Longwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21540/longwood/topic/family-households