1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Merino · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Merino
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Merino are occupied by a single person, a rate far above the national average. This makes the area stand out among similar places for having very small households. The typical home here has only 1.9 people, which is well below the Victorian and Australian figures.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 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 Merino — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
One-person households are among the highest at this level, making up 44.5% of the total. This explains why the typical home is so small, with just 1.9 people living in each, well below the national figure of 2.5.
44.5% ▲ +23.6%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.0%
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 44.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Merino splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (41%), with 4 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of all families are couples without children, while 31.4% are couples with children. One-parent families make up 13.6% of the total, which is higher than most areas but about the same as the Victorian figure.
13.6% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Merino, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Merino [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21658/merino/topic/family-households