2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Pigeon Ponds · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far lower rate of one-parent families than the rest of the country marks the domestic landscape in Pigeon Ponds. While the typical home holds about 2.4 people, the community is overwhelmingly made up of couples, with no one-parent families recorded in the latest census.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Pigeon Ponds — lower than 57% of areas.
Average household size.
With 2.4 people per home, household size here is about the same as the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
In Pigeon Ponds, 2 people is the majority at 77%; 4 people is next at 23%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Family structures are dominated by couples with children (81.8%) and those without (54.5%). This contributes to the area having 0.0% one-parent families, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Pigeon Ponds, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 40%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Pigeon Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22070/pigeon-ponds/topic/family-households