2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Morwell · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Morwell
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of homes in Morwell are occupied by people living alone, creating a distinct social landscape for the area. This high number of single-person households means the typical home is smaller than in most other places, with only 2.2 people per dwelling.
2.2
→ 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 Morwell — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than across Victoria, with 37.7% of households consisting of just one person. This is much higher than the national figure of 25.6% and helps explain why the typical home size is a little below the Australian average.
37.7% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Morwell splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.2% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.1% and among the highest for similar areas. Couples with children are the most common family type at 43.6%.
25.2% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Morwell, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (25%).
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 Morwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21769/morwell/topic/family-households