2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Metcalfe · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Metcalfe
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of people in Metcalfe live on their own, which is a much higher rate than in most other areas. This contributes to a smaller typical household size than seen across the state and country.
2.2
→ 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 Metcalfe — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Metcalfe has 2.2 people, slightly below the national figure of 2.5. About 32.5% of residents live alone, a figure well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
32.5% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 32.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Metcalfe, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.2% of families here. Only 8.6% of families are headed by a single parent, which is well below the national rate of 14.1%.
8.6% ▲ +46.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Metcalfe, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 40%.
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 Metcalfe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21671/metcalfe/topic/family-households