2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sailors Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sailors Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
A much higher share of one-parent families than the state average defines Sailors Hill. While 21% of families here are led by a single parent, the typical home is smaller than most, with only 2.2 people living in each dwelling.
2.2
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- 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 Sailors Hill — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are slightly smaller than the state and national figures, with a typical size of 2.2 people. Two-person households are the most common at 37.1%, while 22.9% of people live alone, which is well below the Victorian average.
22.9% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sailors Hill, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 4 people (22%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21% of the area, a figure well above both the Victorian and national averages. This is a significant contrast to the 37.1% of families who are couples without children.
21.0% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Sailors Hill splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (40%) and Couples with children (38%), with One-parent families at 22%.
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 Sailors Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22225/sailors-hill/topic/family-households