1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Prahran · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Prahran
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Prahran are occupied by just one person. This creates a small-scale living environment where only 1.8 people live in the typical home, a figure well below the Victorian and national average of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Prahran — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 45.5% of all homes. This is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia, which helps explain why the area has some of the lowest person-per-home counts in the region.
45.5% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Prahran, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most frequent family type at 47.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 8.9% of the area, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
8.9% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Prahran, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (41%) and One-parent families (9%).
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 Prahran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22118/prahran/topic/family-households