2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ripponlea · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ripponlea
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of people in Ripponlea live on their own, creating a neighborhood of smaller households. This trend means that the typical home here is less crowded than in most other areas, with only 2.2 people per dwelling.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 Ripponlea — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are far more common here than across Australia, at 35.8%. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.2 people is a little below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
35.8% ▼ -4.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ripponlea splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.4% of families, while those without children account for 32.8%. One-parent families represent 11.8% of the total, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.8% ▲ +24.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ripponlea, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without 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 Ripponlea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22179/ripponlea/topic/family-households