2.1 ▲ +23.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Peterborough · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Peterborough
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Peterborough than in most similar areas, with 40.1% of households consisting of just one person. This shift toward smaller living arrangements means the typical home here is smaller than the state average, with only 2.1 people per dwelling.
2.1
▲ +23.5%
- 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 Peterborough — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 40.1% of households being single-person homes, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.1 people, a little below the Victorian average of 2.5.
40.1% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.5%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Peterborough splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with only one parent make up 6.5% of the area, which is well below the 14.1% national average. Most families here are couples, with 51.5% having children and 43.7% without.
6.5% ▼ -82.2%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Peterborough, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 43%.
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 Peterborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22062/peterborough/topic/family-households