2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Penshurst · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Penshurst
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Penshurst than in most similar areas, with 33.8% of households consisting of just one person. This creates a community where smaller living arrangements are common, as the typical home holds only 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -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 Penshurst — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33.8% of residents live alone, which is well above the 25.9% seen across Victoria. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.3 people is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
33.8% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Penshurst splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up half of the local families, while those without children account for 35.6%. One-parent families make up 12.3%, which is about the same as the state average.
12.3% ▲ +55.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Penshurst, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Penshurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22056/penshurst/topic/family-households