2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mossiface · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mossiface
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Mossiface than in the rest of the country, with only 17.4% of households being single-person homes. This reflects a community where most people live in larger groups, with 61.2% of families consisting of couples with children.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 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 Mossiface — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Mossiface holds 2.6 people, which is higher than most areas and slightly above the national figure of 2.5. Most households are small to mid-sized, with 37% containing two people and 26.1% containing three.
17.4% ▼ -28.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mossiface, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 3 people (24%) and 4 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families here at 61.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families represent only 7.8% of the total, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and Australian averages.
7.8% ▲ +42.0%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mossiface, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Mossiface [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21770/mossiface/topic/family-households