2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newstead · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Newstead
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of homes in Newstead are occupied by just one person, making it a place where living alone is far more common than elsewhere. This trend means households are smaller than typical, with only 2.2 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5.
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 Newstead — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 36.2% of residents live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the usual household size is a little below the state and national average.
36.2% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Newstead, the largest group is 1 person at 37%, followed by 2 people (31%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.2% of families, while one-parent families account for 14.9%. This last group is higher than in most similar areas and a little above the Victorian average of 13.3%.
14.9% ▲ +27.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newstead, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Newstead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21936/newstead/topic/family-households