2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mooroopna · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mooroopna
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Mooroopna are made up of just one person, which is much higher than the national figure. This creates a distinct local landscape where small households and a high number of single-parent families are more common than in most other areas.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Mooroopna — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Mooroopna holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Victorian average of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 34.6% of residents live alone, a figure well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
34.6% ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mooroopna splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 23.9% of the total, which is far above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and among the highest for similar areas. Couples with children are the most common family type at 44.7%.
23.9% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mooroopna, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (24%).
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 Mooroopna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21756/mooroopna/topic/family-households