2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Moe · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Moe
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small living arrangements are the norm in Moe, where a striking 43.2% of people live alone. This makes the typical home much smaller than in other areas, with just 2.0 people per household. It is an area where single-person homes and one-parent families are far more common than in the rest of the state.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Moe — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 43.2% of residents living alone, Moe has one of the highest rates of single-person households for its size. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
43.2% ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Moe, the largest group is 1 person at 43%, followed by 2 people (31%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families are far more common here than elsewhere, making up 25.8% of all families. This is 12 percentage points higher than both the Victorian and Australian figures.
25.8% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Moe, the largest group is Couples with children at 42%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (26%).
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 Moe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21716/moe/topic/family-households