2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Pearsondale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Pearsondale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Living arrangements in Pearsondale have remained steady over the last decade, though it is now more common to find people living alone here than in most other similar areas. The community consists of 2.6 people per home, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.6
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- 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 Pearsondale — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 30% of residents live alone, a figure well above the state and national averages. This contributes to a varied mix of household sizes, with 34.1% of homes containing two people and 22.7% holding four.
29.5% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Pearsondale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 1 person (23%), with 4 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up the largest group at 66%. One-parent families account for 13.6% of the total, which is higher than in most similar areas but about the same as the Victorian average.
13.6% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Pearsondale, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Pearsondale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22051/pearsondale/topic/family-households