2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Point Leo · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Point Leo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Point Leo compared to the state and national figures. This coastal area is mostly made up of family homes, where over half of all families are couples raising children.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 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 Point Leo — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Most homes in Point Leo house two people (42.4%), and the typical home holds 2.6 people. Only 22% of residents live alone, which is well below the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
22.0% ▲ +54.2%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Point Leo, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 4 people (23%) and 1 person (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life here is dominated by couples, with 50.7% raising children and 37.5% without. Only 4.9% of families are headed by a single parent, a figure much lower than most similar areas and well below the 14.1% national average.
4.9% ▼ -30.5%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Point Leo, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Point Leo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22087/point-leo/topic/family-households