2.5 ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Newtown
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a quarter of people live alone in Newtown, which is higher than most similar areas. The suburb has a balanced mix of household types, with a typical home hosting 2.5 people, matching the state and national figures.
2.5
▲ +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 Newtown — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 28.5% of residents live by themselves, which is a little above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Two-person households are the most common, making up 32% of the area.
28.5% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Newtown splits fairly evenly between 2 people (32%) and 1 person (28%), with 4 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 62.3% of families here. One-parent families account for 10.5%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.5% ▲ +1.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newtown, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21938/newtown/topic/family-households