2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Moonlight Flat · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Moonlight Flat are couples with children, making this the most common household type. The area is mostly made up of family units, with very few single-parent households compared to the rest of the country.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Moonlight Flat — lower than 57% of areas.
Average household size.
The typical home in Moonlight Flat has 2.4 people, which is about the same as the Victorian and national figures. Roughly 22.6% of people live alone, a rate that is a little below the Australian average.
2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
22.6% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Moonlight Flat, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 4 people (25%) and 1 person (22%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Family structures here are quite distinct, with couples with children making up 55.1% and couples without children accounting for 39.1%. Notably, there are no one-parent families, which is far below the national rate of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Moonlight Flat, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 42%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Moonlight Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21744/moonlight-flat/topic/family-households