1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Port Albert · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Port Albert
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become the norm in Port Albert, where the typical home now holds fewer people than in most other areas. This shift is driven by a high number of people living alone and couples without children, making it a place with much smaller living arrangements than the state or national average.
1.9
→ 0.0%
- 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 Port Albert — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Just 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 31% of residents live alone, a figure well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
31.0% ▼ -23.8%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.7%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Port Albert, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 54.7%. One-parent families account for 11.4%, which is a little below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
11.4% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Port Albert, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with children is next at 32%.
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 Port Albert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22103/port-albert/topic/family-households