1.8 ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Raymond Island · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home than almost any similar area makes Raymond Island a place of small households. Most homes here are occupied by just one or two people, with 37.1% of residents living alone.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Raymond Island — lower than 91% of areas.
Average household size.
Only 1.8 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which are far more common here than across Victoria.
1.8 ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
37.1% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Raymond Island, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 1 person (37%) and 3 people (8%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families at 69.5%. In contrast, one-parent families are much lower than in most areas, at just 6.3%.
6.3% ▼ -13.4%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Raymond Island, Couples without children is the majority at 69%; Couples with children is next at 24%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Raymond Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22145/raymond-island/topic/family-households