2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Melton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Melton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Melton than in the typical Victorian suburb, with 33.1% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes sits alongside a very high rate of one-parent families, marking a distinct household profile compared to the rest of the state.
2.4
→ 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 Melton — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33.1% of residents live alone, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Despite this, the typical home size of 2.4 people is about the same as the national average of 2.5.
33.1% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Melton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (33%) and 2 people (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.4% of the total, a figure far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. Roughly half of all families in the area are couples with children.
24.4% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Melton, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by One-parent families (24%) and Couples without children (24%).
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 Melton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21642/melton/topic/family-households