2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Montrose · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Montrose
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are common in Montrose, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where few people live on their own.
2.8
→ 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 Montrose — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 19.3% of residents live alone, which is well below the Victoria figure of 25.9%. This helps explain why the area has much higher occupancy than most other places, with 30.7% of homes holding two people and 19.4% holding four.
19.3% ▼ -1.2%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Montrose, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples with children, who make up 66.8% of all families. In contrast, one-parent families account for only 9.2%, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
9.2% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Montrose, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Montrose [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21736/montrose/topic/family-households