2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Murrayville · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Murrayville than in most similar areas. This creates a landscape where about 41% of homes are occupied by a single person, making the typical household size smaller than the state and national figures.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Murrayville — lower than 81% of areas.
Average household size.
Single-person households are far more common here than in Victoria or Australia, at 40.7%. This helps explain why the typical home in Murrayville has only 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
40.7% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Murrayville splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (36%), with 4 people at 13%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 51.3% of families, while 40.8% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 9.9%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.9% ▲ +45.2%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Murrayville, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 40%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Murrayville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21845/murrayville/topic/family-households