2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mortlake · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mortlake
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of homes in Mortlake are occupied by just one person. This creates a distinct living pattern for the town, where single-person households are far more common than in most other similar areas. Small household sizes are the defining feature of the local community.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Mortlake — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Mortlake holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This is partly because 35.1% of people live alone, a proportion well above the national average of 25.6%.
35.1% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mortlake splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.6% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types are led by couples with children at 44.2% and couples without children at 37.3%.
17.6% ▲ +22.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mortlake, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Mortlake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21767/mortlake/topic/family-households