2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Pleasant · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Pleasant
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the largest group in Mount Pleasant, where 44.8% of families live together. While many households are family-based, there is also a notably high number of people living on their own. This mix means the typical home here is slightly smaller than the state average.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Mount Pleasant — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 32.7% of people here live alone, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Because of this, the typical home in Mount Pleasant holds 2.3 people, slightly lower than the national figure of 2.5.
32.7% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mount Pleasant splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.7% of the total, a figure that is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples without children, who account for 28.6% of the area.
24.7% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (29%) 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 Mount Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21807/mount-pleasant/topic/family-households