2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Riverside · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Riverside
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Riverside than in the rest of Victoria, which helps explain why homes here are larger. With a typical household of 2.8 people, the area is much more crowded than the national average. This reflects a community where the vast majority of residents live in family groups.
2.8
→ 0.0%
- 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 Riverside — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Only 10.8% of households are single-person homes, a figure that is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
10.8% ▼ -19.6%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Riverside, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 3 people (20%) and 4 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 62.6% of the total. One-parent families account for 8.8%, which is well below the 14.1% average for Australia.
8.8% ▼ -7.4%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Riverside, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; 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 Riverside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22180/riverside/topic/family-households