2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Preston · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Preston
How families and households are made up across the area.
A higher than average number of single-person households now shapes the living patterns in Preston. While the typical home holds 2.4 people, nearly 30% of homes are occupied by someone living alone, which is well above the national figure.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Preston — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 30% of people here live alone, a figure well above the 25.6% seen across Australia. Most homes house either one or two people, while the typical household size of 2.4 is about the same as the Victorian average.
29.7% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Preston splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 56.4% of families in the area. One-parent families represent 13.5% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the state average.
13.5% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Preston, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Preston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22121/preston/topic/family-households