3.2 ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Plenty · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Plenty
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live in each home in Plenty than in most other similar areas. The typical home holds 3.2 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. This makes the area a strong holdout for large households and family-focused living.
3.2
▼ -5.9%
- 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 Plenty — higher than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Very few people live alone here, at just 9.7%, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Instead, larger homes are the norm, with 28.4% of households containing four people.
9.7% ▲ +23.0%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Plenty splits fairly evenly between 4 people (28%) and 2 people (26%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 77.0%. This helps explain why one-parent families are much lower than most areas, sitting at 4.6% compared to the national figure of 14.1%.
4.6% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Plenty, Couples with children is the majority at 77%; Couples without children is next at 17%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Plenty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22084/plenty/topic/family-households