2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Marshall · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Marshall
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 38% of people live alone in Marshall, which is far above the national figure. This high number of single-person households means the area has a much smaller typical home size than most other places.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Marshall — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 37.5% of homes occupied by one person, Marshall has a much higher rate of people living alone than most areas. This helps explain why the typical home here holds only 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures.
37.5% ▲ +15.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Marshall splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 49.2% of families, while those without children account for 38.2%. One-parent families make up 11.5% of the total, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
11.5% ▲ +52.7%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Marshall, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Marshall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21615/marshall/topic/family-households