2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Redcastle · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Redcastle, where 36.7% of people live alone. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a much smaller typical household size than most other parts of the country.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Redcastle — lower than 76% of areas.
Average household size.
With 36.7% of people living alone, this is a much higher figure than the 25.6% national average. Consequently, the typical home in Redcastle holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5.
2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
36.7% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Redcastle splits fairly evenly between 1 person (46%) and 2 people (42%), with 5 people at 13%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.8% of families, while those without children account for 38.5%. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, a figure far below both the Victorian and national averages.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Redcastle, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 42%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Redcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22153/redcastle/topic/family-households