3.2 ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Park Orchards · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Park Orchards
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Park Orchards than in the usual Australian household. This is a family-focused area where 74.3% of homes are couples with children, meaning very few residents live on their own.
3.2
▼ -3.0%
- 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 Park Orchards — higher than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 3.2 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. Only 9.5% of people live alone, a rate far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
9.5% ▲ +6.2%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Park Orchards splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 4 people (26%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 74.3%. One-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, at just 4.9%, which is well below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
4.9% ▼ -18.1%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Park Orchards, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Park Orchards [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22036/park-orchards/topic/family-households