2.2 ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Main Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Main Ridge
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Main Ridge than in the rest of Victoria, where the rate is 5.6 percentage points higher. This area has a strong mix of couples and single residents, though typical homes are smaller than the national average.
2.2
▼ -15.4%
- 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 Main Ridge — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Main Ridge are slightly smaller than the national figure, with 2.2 people per dwelling. Nearly half of all households contain two people, while those living alone make up 26.7% of the area.
26.7% ▲ +21.8%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Main Ridge, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46.3% of families, while those without children account for 43.1%. Only 7.7% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
7.7% ▲ +16.0%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Main Ridge splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) 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 Main Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21578/main-ridge/topic/family-households