2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sandford · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sandford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Sandford than in the typical Victorian town. This is a small community where most homes house only one or two people, and the number of one-parent families is well above the national figure.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Sandford — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes in Sandford are small, with only 2.0 people per dwelling, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, reaching 36.2% compared to 25.6% across Australia.
36.2% ▲ +20.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sandford, 2 people is the majority at 56%; 1 person is next at 44%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.9% of the community, a figure well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. Couples with and without children each account for 38.4% of families.
20.9% ▲ +15.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Sandford splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (39%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 21%.
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 Sandford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22230/sandford/topic/family-households