2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Murrumbeena · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Murrumbeena
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Murrumbeena than in most similar areas. The typical home here holds about 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure. This mix of small and large households creates a diverse residential landscape across the suburb.
2.4
→ 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 Murrumbeena — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are common here, with 31.1% of people living alone, a figure well above the 25.6% national average. Two-person homes are also frequent, making up 31.5% of all households.
31.1% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Murrumbeena splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (31%), with 4 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families in Murrumbeena are couples with children, accounting for 61.2% of the total. One-parent families make up 9.3%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.3% ▲ +9.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Murrumbeena, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Murrumbeena [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21849/murrumbeena/topic/family-households